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A meeting of the Abkhazian Council of Elders was held in Sukhum, Prime Minter Nodar Khashba and two presidential candidates, Sergey Bagapsh and Raul Khadzhimba, attending it.

Deputy of the Azerbaijan parliament Rabiat Aslanova stated recently that 4 thousand Azerbaijanians were held captive in Armenia.

"I highly appreciate the Armenian authorities' readiness to honor the commitments undertaken to the Council of Europe," head of the Committee of Ministers' Monitoring Group (GT-SUIVI.AGO) Roland Wegener said.

Bishop Aleksandr of Baku and the Caspian Region and head of the community of Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan Boris Ikhiilov will accompany the head of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Caucasus in his trip.

The suspension is caused by financial problems, newspaper editors told the Caucasian Knot correspondent. Azerbaijan printing houses refused to publish the newspaper because of its debts.

"The Georgian side doesn't take measures to withdraw illegal armed unites, which have no right to stay in the zone of responsibility of the Peacekeeping Forces," announced the United Press Center of South Osetia.

Today, the newly created council called on the people of Abkhazia to hold their peace and on the heads of election headquarters not to exceed the limits of legality.

Makhira Muradova demands that the damage to her health done by Azerbaijan policemen should be compensated.

The Council of Europe finds it necessary that public television and radio should be created on the basis of both Azerbaijan national channels.

Some two thousand people supporting Sergey Bagapsh went from Freedom Square, where they held an unauthorized meeting, to the government building, broke through the cordon, and entered Prime Minister Nadar Khashba's private office by force.

Commenting on the situation, head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center Valery Khatazhukov said the Supreme Court let the Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry push itself around. The ministry imitates a struggle against terrorism expelling the repatriates, he holds.

Helsinki Citizens' Assembly National Committee of Azerbaijan Chairwoman Arzu Abdullayeva stated her organization has prepared a new project, under the name Aland Model, for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Aslan Usmayev, and Vakhit and Abubakar Abuyevs were captured by rebels from Akhmed Avdorkhanov's group, who assaulted the Alleroy village on the night of May 1.

The Law on Public Broadcasting was published by the official Azerbaijan press and thus came into force yesterday, November 9.

The rally resulted in the agreement that a meeting between Beslan residents and members of the North Osetian parliament as well as Moscow officials would be arranged in the Beslan Palace of Culture on November 18.

The Georgian Defense Ministry is planning to reduce the number of its personnel from 23,000 to 17,000 people in the near future.

Earlier, the Board Council of the Association of Relatives of the Missing Nagorno-Karabakh Soldiers delivered an address raising concern about destinies of the soldiers taken prisoners and civilians taken hostages.

Abductors, wearing camouflage uniforms and masks and moving in cars without number plates, enter local houses by force. And the Chechen Interior Ministry opens criminal cases in connection with the adductions.

Today relatives of seven young men killed in Karachaevo-Cherkessia occupied the ground floor of the republican Government House and entered the private office of the president of Karachaevo-Cherkessia by force.

Elections for the Chechen parliament will most likely be held in October 2005, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told a press conference in Grozny yesterday, November 4.