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"This action is caused by today's intention of the parliament to pass a resolution canceling the presidential decree about a repeated election of the head of the republic and to claim a vote of no-confidence in Vladislav Ardzinba," Vasiliy Avidzba, head of Raul Khadzhimba's election staff, said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

"We claim one more time there's no state policy of resettlement," spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry Gamlet Gasparian said commenting on Azerbaijan's initiative to put the question "About the Situation on the Occupied Azerbaijan Territory" on the agenda of the 59th Session of the UN General Assembly.

Abkhazian President Vladislav Ardzinba has signed a decree to hold a repeated election of the head of the republic.

Under the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation, an application for the prolongation of a residential permit must be submitted six months prior to its expiration. The repatriates claim no one has familiarized them with this document.

On October 23, from 200 to 500 people, supposedly relatives of the Beslan tragedy victims, blocked off the federal route Kavkaz on the administrative border with Ingushetia.

The Chechen Interior Ministry has refused to give any comments on the matter, claiming that Chechen policemen have conducted no actions in the village of Noviye Atagi recently.

Police cruelly beaten picket participants. Several people received serious bodily injuries as a result, and more than 30 participants were detained.

The Baztab website, close to Iranian special services, spread information yesterday about the gathering of Azerbaijan troops on the border with Iran.

On October 21, indignant residents of Beslan gathered at the building of the town administration. Their indignation was caused by the fact that material aid did not reach victims.

"Great Britain treats Azerbaijan's territorial integrity with respect, and such trips don't correspond with the interests of Great Britain therefore the government recommends not to pay such visits," embassy officials said.

The recipients will include internally displaced persons (IDPs) and vulnerable groups in central and southern Chechnya as well as IDPs in Ingushetia and Daghestan. Assistance includes: food and non-food items, medical support, shelter and water/sanitation, education, psychological assistance and vocational training.

The Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations has addressed a letter to Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis in connection with the conviction of seven opposition leaders.

Encircled rebels blew themselves up by grenades when their ammunition was over.

According to Gevorg Yazychan, a historian from Syria, real panic has started in Armenian settlements in Arabian countries today. Armenians in Iraq are transferring their children from Armenian schools to other Christian schools apprehending acts of retribution.

"The sentence passed on seven leaders of opposition political parties has political motives, and the convicts themselves are political prisoners," said director of the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan Eldar Zeinalov.

On April 8, 2004, the Russian air force bombarded the mountain village of Rigakhoi, Chechnya's Vedeno district. A young woman and her 5 children, the oldest of whom was 7, were killed by an air strike.

In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, chairman of the Musavat Party Isa Gambar stated that "today's statement has proved one more time there is no independent judicial system in Azerbaijan, and they [judges] depend on the will of the executive power, which chartered this shameful trial."

Kadyrov did not imparted concrete sources from which this information was obtained.

Such a policy implemented by Armenia has a negative effect on the process of resolving the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict by peaceful means, Metin Mirza, head of the Foreign Ministry's press service, said.

Co-chairman of the Azerbaijan-Russian inter-parliamentary commission Arif Ragimzade expressed a protest against accusations heard in Russia sometimes that Azerbaijan gives terrorists an opportunity to develop their activity in the country.