23:26, 20 April 2006

Parliament of Chechnya called to create an inter-branch commission for searching the missing people

The parliament of Chechnya has declared that the problem of missing people could not be addressed without setting up an inter-branch commission at the federal level. Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, Chairman of the National Assembly of the Chechen Republic, informed that today the united sitting of the National Assembly deputies and the Council of the Republic has adopted an appeal to the Russian leadership to establish such commission and to appoint Vladimir Kolesnikov, Deputy General Prosecutor of Russia, to be its head.

The participants of the sitting were Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, and over 20 mothers of missing persons, the Interfax reports.

We remind you that earlier Mr. Nukhazhiev informed that over seven thousand persons have disappeared or kidnapped in Chechnya from the start of the first war campaign. "According to our data, starting from 1999, the list of missing persons counts 2780 names. This data is far from being complete," he remarked.