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CHECHNYA: THE ROAD TO PEACE |

[Priorities / Chechnya: the road to peace] |

2004

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

March 3
2004

President Vladimir Putin discussed the return of temporary migrants from Ingushetia to the Chechen Republic with the head of the Presidential committee for human rights, Ella Pamfilova.

The situation for people returning to Chechnya is on the whole favourable, although there are certain problems, Ella Pamfilova reported. In temporary accommodation centres there are over 300 free spaces, and re-settlement has been prepared for, but there are problems with the water supply.

The most difficult question is paying compensations: not all normative documents have been prepared. Solving the problem of displaced persons returning to Chechnya is also hindered by contradictory information that people receive from different departments.

January 28
2004

President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in the Chechen Republic with the President of Chechnya A. Kadyrov.

The President of the Chechen Republic informed President Putin of the economic results for 2003. The budget has been met fully, and there are no debts in paying workers from the budget in education or medicine. Pensions and benefits have been paid in full.

Reporting on the work of the Chechen police, Kadyrov said that major work remains on purging the police of traitors, and proposed for additional staff to be employed to create police stations in villages.

Kadyrov said that over 1,000 families had received notification of payment of compensations, and explained that the process was taking place slowly, as the original scheme for payment by lists revealed falsifications in half the cases. The updated scheme – with checks by the Internal Ministry and State had also revealed major violations and may need to be elaborated once more.

Everything needs to be done to insure there are no abuses of the system, and compensations should be paid to everyone who is entitled to them, Vladimir Putin said.

January 16
2004

By 1 March 2004, it is planned to completely liquidate the camps created for temporary refugees from Chechnya, Minister S. Ilyasov reported to President Vladimir Putin.

Work is underway on drawing up a complete list of lost housing to pay compensation to residents of the Chechen Republic. Currently, payments are being made to people on the territory of Ingushetia who lost private housing in Chechnya. In the first quarter of 2004, 5,000 people should receive compensation for lost housing.

Furthermore, S. Ilyasov reported that the population of Chechnya now exceeds 1 million people. When Vladimir Putin asked how the problem of creating new work places was being dealt with, the Minister said that it is proposed to develop the reprocessing sector. The able-bodied population of Chechnya is 460,000, and 170,000 of them are unemployed.

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