SHAIMIEV TO MEET SOON WITH DUDAEV REPRESENTATIVES

. Tatarstan president Mintimer Shaimiev is likely to meet "very soon" with representatives of Chechen leader Djohar Dudaev to discuss the possibility of acting as mediator between the separatists and the Russian central authorities, Shaimiev’s political adviser Rafael Khakimov has revealed. (Interfax, April 4) Khakimov said Shaimiev would leave Kazan on April 5 for a previously planned two-week vacation in the United Arab Emirates and that he would likely meet with General Dudaev’s emissaries there.

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