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In the course of his first visit to Moscow on February 10-12, the new president of Georgia asserted that the territory of Abkhazia was used to convey drugs as transit goods and to expand terrorism.

"The militants' base consisted of two dug-outs with the accommodation capacity of up to 10 people each, places for cooking food and for meals, and four combat security trenches situated along the perimeter of the base," a headquarters official said.

The goal of such seminars is to train human rights defenders, including lawyers, in methods and mechanisms of human rights protection in international instances.

The trial was caused by the article published in the newspaper on 22 October 2003 under the title "Reports from the Gestapo".

The UNHCR field office in Ingushetia has arranged the delivery of drinking water to the refugee camp in special tanks, but Satsita inhabitants still have to limit its use.

We call your attention to the text of the letters addressed by the Human Rights Center "Memorial" to the Moscow Mayor and Prosecutor in view of the forthcoming meeting titled "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits".

Zurab Zhvania became Prime Minister of Georgia; 4 state ministers and 15 ministers were appointed.

The All-Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights" holds that workers of the prosecutor's office continue to violate constitutional rights of the public movement's members, who advocate rights of the people suffered during the storm of the Theatre Center. The violation is that they limit their access to justice.

The first information meeting with Meskhetian Turks on the program of their resettlement to the United States was held in the village of Kholmskaya, Krasnodar Territory, on 16 February 2004.

"Georgia sold 6 SU-25 fighters to Azerbaijan in 2002, without notifying corresponding UN agencies," reports the Azg newspaper, Armenia.

The Moscow authorities will pay out over 265 thousand rubles in a lump sum and will pay over 17 thousand rubles monthly.

The public prosecutor proved that in June 2003, the lieutenant tied a local man to a chair with belts and beat him with the purpose of getting a confession from him.

Locals believe the bombardment was a reaction to the terrorist act committed in the Moscow metro on 6 February 2004.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who leads Al Qaeda's operations on the territory of Iraq, calls upon "all the Jihad fighters" to go to Iraq to wage "holy war" under his command their. He intends to transfer from 1.5 to 2 thousand fighters who stay on the territory of Chechnya now to Iraq.

The cache contained 132 mines of the 120 caliber.

Abkhazian Prime Minister Raul Khajimba came to Moscow on February 15.

"The new authorities enjoy great confidence and have total carte blanche regardless of how much we criticize them. I hope everything they will do will be under strict control of the West, which will not allow them to move towards aggression," says the expert in the issues of resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.

"We cannot prevent torture against detainees at the police departments. The Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General's Office keep on disregarding all the appeals by international and republican human rights organizations," reads the statement.

Vagram Balayan thinks that in the context of the Baku-Jeikhan oil pipeline construction, the interested countries may force the Armenian side to accept certain variants of the resolution.

General Vladimir Arshba warned that if such a situation recurred, Abkhazia would find a way to defend its interests at sea, as well as a way to defend peace fishermen.