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DANISH Support Committee for CHECHNYA 2002
Chairman: Thomas Bindesbøll Larsen     Web: Ole Stig Andersen
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April 3, 2002 (rev Apr 5)

STATEMENT

ON THE LEGAL SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF CHECHENIA
22 litauiske parlamentsmedlemmer henvender sig til Folketinget:
Rusland bør indklages for Menneskeretsdomstolen

27. mar     Der bør rejses sag mod Rusland for krænkelser af menneskerettighederne i Tjetjenien
    Det kræver 22 medlemmer af det litauiske parlament, Seimas, i en henvendelse til det danske Folketing en uge før tinget torsdag d. 4. skal debattere et dansk initiativ til at rejse international retssag mod Kreml.
    Henvendelsen der er stilet til Folketingets formand, Ivar Hansen, og alle tingets medlemmer, kræver også at Kreml indleder fredsforhandlinger med Tjetjeniens lovligt valgte præsident, Aslan Maskhadov.
    De 22 litauiske parlamentarikere kommer fra alle Sejmens partier og de stiller sig bag ønsket om at Kremls forbrydelser i Tjetjenien bliver politisk og retligt behandlet i de internationale organer.
    Henvendelsen der har titlen: "Den juridiske løsning på Tjetjenien-problemet" afspejler den forventning det vakte i udlandet da Folketinget i efteråret 2001 vedtog at Rusland bør stilles for retten. Blandt medstillerne af dette beslutningsforslag var nuværende udenrigsminister, Per Stig Møller.
    Den baltiske interesse for Folketingets Tjetjenien-politik understreges af at det kun er en uge siden den konservative litauiske uafhængighedspolitiker og mangeårige Tjetjenienaktivist Algirdas Endriukaitis besøgte Danmark. (se her)
    Læs hele henvendelsen her (på engelsk)
22 Lithuanian Parliamentarians in a Statement to the Danish Parliament:
Russia should be sued for War Crimes in Chechnya

Mar 27     Russia should assume legal responsibility for its crimes against humanity in Chechnya.
    That is among the issues pointed out in a stastement to the Danish Parliament, Folketinget, signed by 22 member from all political factions in the Lithuanian Parliament, the Seimas. The statement comes just a week before Folketinget is due to discuss a Danish initiative to have Russia sued for an international court for its crimes against humanity in Chechnya.
    The statement is adressed to the chairman of Folketinget, Ivar Hansen, and all its members. It also demands that the Kremlin initiated peace negotiations with Chechnya's legally elected president, Aslan Maskhadov.
    The 22 Lithuanian parlamentarians come from alle the political faction in the Seimas demanding that Russia's crimes in Chechnya are brought to international court.
    The statement titled "On the Legal Solution to the Problem of Chechenia" mirrors the expectations raised abroad when Folketinget in autumn 2001 decided that Denmark should take action to have Russia sued. Among the proposers of the motion was Per Stig Møller, now Denmark's foreign minister.
    The Baltic interest in Folketinget's Chechnya politicy is underscored by the visit to Denmark only a week ago by the conservative Lithuanian independence politician and Chechnya campaigner, Algirdas Endriukaitis.
    Read the whole statement here (in English)



LIETUVOS RESPUBLIKOS SEIMAS
SEIMAS OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
Translated from Lithuanian

To: Mr. HANSEN IVAR CHRISTIAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE FOLKETINGET
To: MEMBERS OF THE FOLKETINGET

S T A T E M E N T   March 27, 2002

ON THE LEGAL SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF CHECHENIA

We support and appreciate the effort of the European Parliament to raise and discuss the urgent problem regarding Chechenia in order to put an end to the physical extermination of the Chechen people and to evaluate the situation from the moral, historic, legal and political point of view.

We are of the opinion that the present unjust Russiaís war in Chechenia should be considered in the light of Russiaís unleashed wars of colonial expansion in the 19th, 20th centuries and in 1994 against Chechenia. The 12 05 1997 Peace Treaty concluded between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria signed by the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin and the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov should be also taken into account. In the Peace Treaty there is affirmed that the solution of negotiations between Russia and Chechenia would be based on the international law.

Instead of solving the present problems and implementing peace between Russia and Chechenia the Government of the Russian Federation preoccupied with the policy of disseminating discord, destabilisation, provocations among the people of Chechenia, the total isolation of Chechenia in the order to regain the lost rule over the Chechen people. The participation of some Chechens in the Dagestan events was contrary to the policy of the President of Chechenia and its Parliament. However, the provocative situation was skilfully exploited to justify a new invasion of the Russian troops into the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and to take revenge for the lost war of 1996. The desire of the Chechen people to live in their free and independent country the Russian authorities treats as a criminal action and try to present their behaviour as a war against terrorism. Such a distortion of the real situation in Chechenia cannot be tolerated any longer.

We suggest three points for a peaceful solution of the Chechen problem:

  1. To recognize under the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe observation lawfully elected President and the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and to persuade Russia to start peace negotiations between Russia and Chechenia including a third party;
  2. To assess the war crimes of the Russian army against humanity committed in Chechenia and to require Russia to assume responsibility for these crimes according to the international law;
  3. To eliminate the previous and the present causes of war in Chechenia by implementing the right of the Chechen people to self-determination.

Members of Parliament: [Name, surname, signature, faction]

Stanislovas Bukeviãius (Joint),
Juozas Olekas (Socialdemocrat),
Rolandas Pavilionis (Socialdemocrat),
Algis Kaòta (Joint),
Petras Graulis (Joint),
Egidijus Skarbalius (Liberaldemocratic),
Povilas Jakuãionis (Conservative),
Romanas Sedlickas (Liberal),
Vitas Matuzas (Conservative),
Rasa Jukneviãienò (Conservative),
Gintaras ileikis (Joint),
Vytautas ustauskas (Joint),
Juozas Raistenskis (Socialdemocrat),
Jratò Juozaitienò (Socialdemocrat),
Artras Vazbys (Joint),
Andrius Kubilius (Conservative),
Jurgis Razma (Conservative),
Jonas âiuleviãius (Joint),
Aloyzas Sakalas (Socialdemocrat),
Klemensas Rimelis (Liberal),
Egidijus Klumbys (Socialliberal),
Antanas Stasikis (Conservative).

Contact:
Gedimino pr. 53, 2026 Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel. (370-2) 62 71 97
Fax (370-2) 224 698
Tel./fax. +370 2 39 66 18
E-mail: alendr@post.5ci.lt


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