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Both Terry Davis and the present PACE rapporteur on the Karabakh conflict, David Atkinson, are representatives of Great Britain, which is one of the few countries that have recognized Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, including Nagorny Karabakh.

According to preliminary information, Prime Minister Raul Khadzhimba was elected President of Abkhazia. He won 101,500 votes (52.84%).

Russian State Duma deputies who attended the celebration of Abkhazia's Independence Day on the republican stadium called upon Abkhazian citizens to give their votes to presidential candidate Raul Khadzhimba in the forthcoming presidential election.

"Some dirty game aimed at dragging the war out for many long years is played in Chechnya," Vakhid Salamov, a former officer of the Interior Ministry of the USSR, said.

In the words of Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia Heidi Tagliavini, the Abkhazian authorities were illegal before the election and will still be after it.

Head of the Information Center of the Council of Chechen Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) Taisa Isayeva said the main problem because of which the organization had to suspend its work was the lack of any funds to continue its activity.

"Greek Cypriotes bring such ungrounded accusations and lie shamelessly from time to time. I condemn capture and murder of people," President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Rauf Denktas said in an address.

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Government Ramzan Kadyrov believes Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov to be among rebels who are being blocked off in the Nozhay-Yurt district of Chechnya.

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) is seriously concerned with the repeated exposure as suspected terrorists of the fourteen doctors on staff of the prominent humanitarian organization International Medical Corp (IMC).

The Abkhazian State Security Service has issued a statement today that meetings are being held in western districts of Georgia with the demand to return refugees to Abkhazia. Organizers of the meetings threaten to arrange actions of disobedience in case their demand is not satisfied.

The Caucasian Knot correspondent was told in the Public Relations Department of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office that "the investigation into the murder of Paul Khlebnikov is going on, the Moscow police have no relation to it, and it is not clear what Mr Pronin makes such statement for."

The Great Creation party believes Azerbaijan ruled over with "feudal" laws, where even deputies are subjected to torture, cannot be a member of the Council of Europe.

In the words of Valery Khatazhukov, the Department of Justice has to register the center this time since documents for the registration were submitted by Lev Ponomarev, head of the All-Russian Movement for Human Rights, to the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Moscow.

A large rebel group was discovered in the Nozhay-Yurt district of Chechnya in the afternoon yesterday.

Chairman of the Organization of Karabakh Liberation (OKL) Akif Nagi stated only those representatives of Armenia could come to Azerbaijan who recognize the country's territorial integrity.

"Terrorists and Shakhids are begotten not by Basayev but by the Kremlin's policy towards the Chechens and other North Caucasian peoples," 49-year-old Aldan, a former teacher at a Grozny institution of higher education, said.

We call your attention to the press release issued by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) on 23 September 2004.

On September 22, the defendants insulted judges and prosecutors using unquotable expressions when they protested against the questioning of Samed Jafarov of the Organized Crime Unite, a witness for the prosecution.

Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Artur Bagdasarian met with members of the delegation headed by OSCE Chairman's special envoy Philip Dimitrov to discuss issues related to the resolution of the Karabakh problem.

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul will hold bilateral meetings with Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia Elmar Mamedyarov and Vardan Oskanian during the next UN session in New York.