PRIMAKOV: CHECHEN RESISTANCE IS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.

As expected, Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov made the argument during the recent G-7 meeting in Paris that Chechen resistance forces should be considered an international terrorist organization. Chechen fighters, he alleged, are supplied with arms that come in part from abroad, and are also able to travel "to certain foreign countries where they receive medical treatment and restore their health." (Izvestiya, July 31)

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