MOSCOW URGES BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 147

Russian leaders on July 27 denounced the bombing at the Olympic games in Atlanta as "barbaric" and called for an intensification of international efforts to fight terrorism. Ministers from the Group of Seven countries and Russia are scheduled to meet tomorrow in Paris to discuss practical ways of coordinating their actions against terrorists. (Reuter, July 27) In the past Moscow has attempted to justify its military operations in Chechnya by citing the battle against international terrorism.

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