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CHECHNYA: THE ROAD TO PEACE |

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April 8 2004

As the Chechen Republic Interior Ministry becomes ready, it should take on full responsibility for maintaining security and law and order in Chechnya, President Vladimir Putin said.

At a working meeting with Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, Mr Putin stated that this includes the responsibility currently laid on the anti-terrorist subdivisions, headquarters and other agencies set up to fight terrorism.

March 24 2004

Isolated acts of terrorism that inevitably threaten public safety and people’s lives bear witness to oversights in the law enforcement agencies’ work, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on law and order, public safety, fighting crime, terrorism and extremism.

Efforts must therefore be made to find new ways of fighting terrorism, make operative and investigative work more effective and strengthen inter-agency cooperation between all the law enforcement agencies, including those in the CIS countries.

Maintaining law and order and providing reliable protection from criminal groups, which in many cases have merged with the remnants of armed rebel groups, are priorities today in Chechnya. In this respect, the Interior Ministry has a particularly important part to play in restoring peaceful life to Chechnya.

| Speech by President Vladimir Putin at a meeting concerning the situation and measures taken for ensuring law and order, public security, and also concerning the war on crime and opposing terrorism and extremism

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«Despite acts of provocation – including the political murder of the leader of Chechnya and the attempt to disrupt the work of legally elected bodies of power in the republic – our policy in fighting terror remains unchanged and consistent. No one and nothing will stop Russia on the path to consolidating democracy, and ensuring human rights and freedoms».
From the Annual Address to the Federal Assembly, May 26, 2004

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