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SNA CHECHENPRESS, Official Information Department, April, 13th 2008
On 7 and 8 April a planned session of the ChRI Parliament, Cabinet of Ministers and honorary consuls was held in Brussels, Belgium, chaired by the head of the highest legislative body of the Chechen state Zh.Saralyapov and attended by international human rights activists and representatives of the ChRI Islamic clergy. The session’s participants discussed key issues of the ChRI foreign and domestic policy. In his introductory address the head of the ChRI Parliament Zh.Saralyapov noted that thanks to the efforts of the representatives of all branches of power in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya the political crisis caused by the anti-constitutional actions of some notorious ‘public figures’ had been overcome.
The Speaker of the ChRI Parliament noted that ' the main task today is to raise the political and ideological work to the required level in order to explain to the international community the key points of our domestic and foreign policy in strict accordance with the ChRI Constitution and in line with the important political agendas set at the time by the heroic leaders of the Chechen state who have all become ‘shakhids’ (Insh’Allah) - Dzhokhar Dudaev, Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, Aslan Maskhadov and Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev.’
Zh.Saralyapov stressed the importance of the active measures taken by the ChRI Office of the Prosecutor General in investigating and instituting criminal procedures against all the national traitors who used to occupy important positions in the executive of the Chechen state and then were base enough to go over to serve the Russian occupying forces. In conclusion the ChRI Speaker said that ‘we should not forget the importance of an all-out support and assistance for the defenders of the Chechen state represented by the members of the Resistance Movement’.
The next speaker - the ChRI Prosecutor General Isa Munaev who took the floor after the ChRI Parliamentary Chairman informed the participants of the meeting about the active investigation and gathering of incriminatory evidence against the group of the national traitors who had committed grave offences against the Chechen people. According to the Prosecutor General there have been several criminal proceedings instituted against some of the former ChRI MPs and members of the ChRI Cabinet of Ministers accused of high treason and attempts to overthrow the ChRI regime.
The First Deputy Speaker of the ChRI Parliament Selim Beshaev and the ChRI MP Balavdi Beloev, participating in the meeting, spoke in support of the previous speakers and promised on their part to assist the actions of the ChRI prosecution officers.
In his speech that followed the prominent Chechen public figure, Taus Askhabov, emphasised the exceptional importance of patriotic education of the Chechen children who have found themselves as a result of circumstances and against their own will in different countries of the international community. He suggested that at sports events held with the participation of Chechen sportsmen it should be mandatory to perform the ChRI national anthem and to raise the national flag. This would play an important role in the patriotic development of the Chechen children living abroad. He told the meeting about the great sporting achievements of the Chechen children in Belgium where T.Askhabov has been coaching them recently.
The respected Chechen alim Zaurbek Beloev, who spoke after Askhabov, stressed the importance of the religious upbringing of the Chechen children which could become a reliable shield against the negative impact of the environment in which they are growing up. Z.Beloev appealed to all the Chechens who have been forced to leave their country to settle in different corners of the world to preserve their religious and national traditions and customs as well as to assist their children in retaining their native language.
The prominent Chechen military commander and popular public figure Sultan Arsaev noted the increased awareness of the Chechen young people who would not be easily diverted from their path by Islamist ideologues. He stressed that the latter are in fact allies of the Russian terrorist state waging a colonial war against the Chechen people.
The famous Chechen human rights activist S.-E.Ibragimov also took part in the meeting in the Belgian capital. He told the audience about the activities of his organisation which has been dealing with human rights violations in Chechnya for many years and demanded a timely investigation into the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Russian occupying forces against the Chechen people.
The meeting in Brussels was attended by the ChRI State Minister Yaragi Abdullaev, Minister for Information, Media and Communications Ilyas Musaev, the ChRI honorary consuls Adam Borovsky in Poland and Ivar Amundsen in Norway and one of the leaders of the Danish Committee in support of Checheniya Professor Karl-Erik Foverskov. The ChRI Prime Minister Akhmed Zakaev maintained contact with the participants over the telephone from London. The participants of the meeting adopted a number of important decisions which would energise the ChRI work in the international political arena.
The ChRI Parliamentary Press Service |
