RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN-CHECHEN PEACE TALKS RESUME AS CHECHENS STAGE DEMONSTRATION IN CAPITAL.

Record ID: 350265

  • Title: RUSSIA/CHECHNYA: RUSSIAN-CHECHEN PEACE TALKS RESUME AS CHECHENS STAGE DEMONSTRATION IN CAPITAL.
  • Date: 30th June 1995
  • Summary: GROZNY, CHECHNYA; RUSSIA (JUNE 30 AND JULY 1, 1995) (RTV -- ACCESS ALL) (JUNE 30, 1995) 1. SV CROWD OF DEMONSTRATORS OUTSIDE ORGANISATION FOR SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE (OSCE) HEADQUARTERS SHOUTING ANTI-RUSSIAN SLOGANS 0.06 2. SV DEPUTY HEAD OF RUSSIAN DELEGATION, ARKADY VOLSKI, AND CHECHEN REPRESENTATIVE AT T
  • Embargoed: 15th July 1995 13:00
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  • Location: GROZNY, CHECHNYA; RUSSIA
  • Reuters ID: LVABBGB9DNDE44P84842AQMDGXTL
  • Story Text: Russian-Chechen peace talks resumed in Chechnya's capital Grozny on Saturday (July 1), one day after Russian President Boris Yeltsin accepted the resignation of three key officials over a bloody hostage taking in southern Russia.

    Usman Imayev, Chechen representative at the talks, said a government re-shuffle resulting from the resignations is "Russia's internal matter and it will in no way influence the course of the talks".

    His counterpart, Arkady Volski, deputy head of the Russian delegation, said the changes were "positive".

    On Friday (June 30), Chechens hailed the decision to sack the three so-called "power ministers" -- Interior Minister Viktor Yerin, Federal Security Service head Sergei Stepashin and Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Yegorov.

    But women who traded at a Grozny city market said that "it's a shame" that Defence Minister Pavel Grachev, architect of the military campaign in Chechnya, stayed. Grachev had tendered his resignation along with the others, but his name was not included in the list of accepted resignations issued by Yeltsin's office.

    A truck driver said the three "should have been sacked three years ago." For the first time in about three days, Chechen protesters on Saturday did not stage an anti-Russian rally at the Organisation for the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) headquarters in Grozny, where the peace talks are taking place. On Friday, Russian and Chechen delegations asked them not to disrupt the talks.

    Russia was forced into talking to the rebels after guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev launched a dramatic raid on the Russian town of Budennovsk this month and seized hundreds of hostages.

    The talks have so far produced only a tentative plan for disengagement and no deal on the stickiest points: the status of the rebel republic, and the future of Chechen rebel leader Dzhokhar Dudayev.


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