28 October 2003, 16:14
Akhmad Kadyrov is prepared to create agency for cooperation with human rights organizations
Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov has said he is prepared to create a special coordinating agency for cooperation with human rights organizations, including non-governmental ones.
Kadyrov was speaking upon his return from Geneva, where he had attended the 79th session of the UN Human Rights Committee.
The Chechen leader also expressed his intention to introduce the special office of the Chechen president's commissioner for human rights, who will coordinate work with the human rights activists. Kadyrov recalled that the Chechen presidential administration and government had accumulated vast experience of cooperation with non-governmental organizations in Chechnya, the number of which comes to two hundred. At the same tine the Chechen president stressed "no single non-governmental organization or group of such organizations had the monopoly to assess the human rights situation."
Kadyrov said that in his address at the Geneva meeting of the UN Human Rights Committee he urged "all human rights organizations critical of the situation in Chechnya to go the republic and join the human rights enforcement work."
"In the nearest future work will be completed to create a commission that will inquire into and give a political assessment of the illegal dissolution of the Supreme Soviet (legislature) of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in August 1991, which triggered the Chechen crisis," he said.
Source: ITAR-TASS News Agency
