…NOTWITHSTANDING DUDAYEV’S TALK OF PEACE.

Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev said yesterday that he would declare the December 17 elections null and void in the republic but would not use force to disrupt them. Dudayev called for renewed negotiations with Moscow as "not only possible, but necessary" but he predicted that only a new Russian leadership could resume negotiations, as "the current leadership is not capable of anything." (3)

Election Commission Accredits Foreign Observers.