15 June 2004 09:31
Chechen Interior Minister takes leave for election campaign (Part 3)
MOSCOW. June 15 (Interfax) - Chechen Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov has taken a leave of absence to take part in the
presidential election campaign in Chechnya and has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to appoint Ruslan Alkhanov
acting interior minister of Chechnya.
Alu Alkhanov told Putin that representatives of many groups in
Chechnya have asked him to run for the presidency. "People want the
Alu Alkhanov has characterized his successor as "a very reliable person, a former OMON special task police
commander."
economic policy to continue, people want Kadyrov's cause to continue, people want further stabilization in
society and in the republic," he said.
He said he knows Chechnya and the cause that has been pursued there well enough to continue it.
In response to Alkhanov's request to consider temporarily replacing him, Putin said Ruslan Alkhanov's
candidacy will be discussed when Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev returns to Moscow from the meeting of CIS
interior ministers currently underway in Chisinau.
Putin also told Alu Alkhanov he is still responsible for creating a mechanism of public control over funds allocated
for rebuilding Chechnya and compensation payments for lost housing.
Putin added that Alu Alkhanov "has managed to bring order to the republic and at the same time care for the
people."
Alu Alkhanov also said he was satisfied with the meeting with
Putin. "I already knew from Kadyrov how useful meetings with the
Public control is necessary for "people's rights to be protected not only in the law enforcement sphere but
also in financial and social matters," Putin said. "Money must get to the people who lost their homes,"
he said.
Taking questions from the press following the meeting with Putin, Alkhanov said the candidate for acting Chechen
interior minister, Ruslan Alkhanov, and he only share the same last name and are not relatives.
"He is from a police family. He is competent. I've no problems with my deputies. Anyone of them could have
been put forward as a candidate for minister, but we decided on Ruslan," he said.
president were for the republic. I share this opinion now," he said.
Alkhanov said the Chechen people support the course that has been
pursued in Chechnya to the present day. "I do not see fit to make up
He said he is confident that "elections in Chechnya will be held as democratically and fairly as
possible."
Alkhanov said he prefer not to discuss the personal qualities of his opponents, but said he respects "all of
them" Equally.
"Competition in any elections is difficult, especially in Chechnya, but this makes victory even more
pleasant," he said.
anything new, but there is a program and there are measures that we want to take to further develop the integration
process and the economy," he said.
In addition to Alkhanov, eight other people have informed the republic's elections committee of their wish to
run for the Chechen presidency. They are official from the Urus-Martan district administration Mariyat Gorchkhanova,
Chechen presidential advisor Vakhit Visayev, Moscow businessman Malik Saidullayev, Rostov-on-Don resident Marat
Zainalabidov, professor Sultan Aiskhanov, lawyer Adam Edilov, General Director of the Nedr joint stock company Magomed
Aidamirov, and Khusein Bibulatov, a pensioner from the Moscow region.
The presidential elections in Chechnya will be held on August 29. The elections were called after Chechen President
Akhmad Kadyrov was killed in a terrorist attack in Grozny on May 9. [RU EEU EUROPE ASIA EMRG POL] av va
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