03 June 2004 12:47
Rights workers fail to meet with PACE rapporteurs in Grozny
MOSCOW. June 3 (Interfax) - Representatives of the Memorial human rights center's Grozny office could not meet
with Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe rapporteurs Rudolf Bindig and Andreas Gross, who are visiting the
North Caucasus.
"The appointment was made. We prepared for the meeting, and human rights campaigners and relatives of missing
people waited for the PACE representatives in Memorial's Grozny office," Memorial's chief Oleg Orlov told
Interfax.
"The PACE rapporteurs did not come to Memorial's office. Duma Deputy Leonid Slutsky, who accompanied Bindig
and Gross, explained that he presumed that Memorial's Grozny office was closed. In addition, the route of the PACE
rapporteurs' trip to Chechnya was changed to deceive the rebels," Orlov said. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG POL DIP] aa
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