10:57, 20 May 2004

NGO collected new signatures under appeal for interim UN administration in Chechnya

The Sintar human rights organization informs that 1,761 signatures in support of the "Conditional Independence Through International Government" plan, better known as Akhmadov's plan, were handed in to the leaders of the Russian Radicals movement on May 17. The total number of signatures collected by Sintar is 3,379. The signatures were collected mainly in the Achkhoy-Martan, Urus-Martan, and Shali districts of Chechnya, in Grozny, and in the tent camps Satsita and Rassvet in Ingushetia.

Meanwhile, an enlarged meeting devoted to Akhmadov's plan was held in the office of the organization in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia on May 15. Its participants were leaders and activists of Sintar's regional branches from different districts of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia. They decided to arrange the round table discussion "Akhmadov's Plan as a Way to Stop the Russian-Chechen War" in the second half of June and to invite Chechen, Russian and may be international public, political and human rights organizations to take part in it.

Editors note: See also the article "Human rights organization Sintar joins collection of signatures for interim UN administration in Chechnya".

Author: Sulumbek Tashtamirov, chairman of the Sintar human rights organization

Source: Sintar human rights organization (Chechnya)