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PRESIDENT PUTIN: "ULTIMATE SOLUTION OF CHECHEN
PROBLEM IN RUSSIA CAN BE FOUND THROUGH POLITICAL DIALOGUE WITH THOSE WILLING
IT"
MOSCOW, January 15. /From a RIA Novosti correspondent/ -- Vladimir Putin believes that an ultimate solution of the Chechen issue in Russia can be found through "political dialogue with the population and those willing such a dialogue".
Putin said this in an interview to Polish reporters on the eve of his visit to Warsaw. On Tuesday the text of the interview has come to hand at RIA Novosti from the Kremlin press service.
Putin said that in Chechnya the army "actually is not conducting combat operations and only local operations are carried out". "Simultaneously, a political dialogue with the population and those willing such a dialogue is under way. Only through dialogue can a final solution be found", he said.
"We are following this road and will do so for the attainment of a final solution of this question", stressed Putin.
The president noted that "terrorism, fundamentalism and other manifestations of extremism are developing in territories which are out of control of the internationally recognised governments".
"This is what we must never allow to happen. This does not mean that we should not take account of legitimate requirements, interests of a nation, a group of people and so on. Of course, this goes in full measure for the people of Chechnya. Complicated processes are taking place there", said Putin.
As regards the problems of terrorism, the Russian president declared that international terrorists "are to be condemned and isolated, or destroyed", as is the case in Afghanistan now. "The same for Chechnya, where a symbiosis of separatism and international extremism has taken place. It is leavened with the extreme manifestations of Islamic fundamentalism", said the Russian president in conclusion.
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