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DAILY NEWS BULLETIN

28.01.2002

US Embassy in Moscow Official Called to Russian MFA


133-25-01-2002

A representative of the US Embassy in Moscow was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation today to be given a demarche in connection with the meeting in Washington by a US State Department official with "Chechen foreign minister" Ilyas Akhmadov as an act, it was emphasized, which is contrary to the spirit of cooperation and partnership between the two countries, our close coordination in the fight against international terrorism.

That the US administration, while declaring the need for a decisive struggle against any manifestations of terrorism all over the world, should essentially encourage Chechen extremists, whose direct links with Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda are borne out by ever new irrefutable evidence, arouses surprise.


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