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Most of Azerbaijan political scientists consider the report published by Andreas Gross and Adres Herkel rather tough, but at the same time do not expect the PACE to punish the Azerbaijan authorities during the forthcoming session.

On September 20, 14 doctors from international medical organization "International Medical Corp" (IMC) turned to Nazran office of HRC "Memorial" for assistance in bringing authorities to investigate the fact that the police have issued a public call for information, connecting them to terrorist acts in Russia.

Chair of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party Ali Kerimli said the decision to hold the meeting was made to demand that Azerbaijan should honor its commitments to the Council of Europe.

Many people in Chechnya believe officers of Chechen security agencies aim at receiving a reward for Maskhadov and Basayev's heads.

"Abkhazia has gain independence and is inclined to build relations with Georgia only on terms of good-neighborliness. Any full of wide degree of autonomy is out of the question," Astamur Tania said.

The only paragraph in the report on Armenia's commitments which caused the PACE Monitoring Committee's dissatisfaction concerns violations in the course of the 2003 elections, Vice Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Tigran Torosian said.

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Government Ramzan Kadyrov issued open threats towards Budanov. "If Budanov is amnestied, we will find an opportunity to reward him according to his deserts," he said.

In its turn, the press service of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Education denied this information.

Abdulla Aliev, known under the literary name Adallo, is charged under three articles of the Criminal Code: organization of an armed revolt, membership in illegal armed units, and illegal carrying of arms.

Mairbek Taramov has announced that a group of saboteurs of the Chechen President's security service arrived in Baku on September 8 to liquidate leaders of Chechen communities in Azerbaijan, members of the Azerbaijan parliament or their families, and to blow up the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline.

Ilya Shabalkin announced that an Arab mercenary detained by FSB (Federal Security Service) officers in the North Caucasus had been moving from Russia to Azerbaijan to undergo treatment for a wound.

Vladimir Putin told journalists after the meeting that thought no result had been achieved yet, each meeting of such a kind was a "step forward".

According to the South Osetian Defense Ministry, elements of the Georgian Armed Forces numbering about 16 thousand people are amassed along the perimeter of South Osetian borders now. And the number of servicemen and fighters in the units stationed inside South Osetia in Georgian villages exceeds 3 thousand.

"I was enlisted in the headquarters to release hostages as a possible mediator in negotiations. But even on the second day of the capture nobody knew what the terrorists were seeking after," Ruslan Badalov head of the Chechen National Rescue Committee said.

There are 43 names in the list of Wahhabis. They all were kept under special observation after the developments in Beslan.

PACE co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel spoke at the session. They mentioned the recent presidential pardon decree among positive factors.

New rapporteur on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was appointed at the session of the PACE Political Committee in Paris yesterday. He is David Atkinson, head of the Azerbaijan Delegation to the PACE Samed Seidov told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

Summing up the debates, Speaker Murtuz Aleskerov said: "We protested against the arrival of servicemen who occupied our lands and shed our people's blood and secured our object."

"In Georgia, the matter always concerned terrorists' living in the Pankissi Gorge, but I've got no information about their number and exact whereabouts," said US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Miles.

The other six mosques are closed at Mayor Berdov's direction because of the difficult situation.