11:56, 3 April 2004

Chechen government asks Red Cross for help

Vice Prime Minister of the Chechen Government Ziyad Sabsabi met with George Kunz, a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Northern Caucasus, in Grozny on April 1.

Ziyad Sabsabi asked the ICRC leadership to assist in the search for missing residents of the Chechen Republic, reported the press service of the Chechen Government. "According to our data, there are over 3 thousand MIAs in the republic," a press service official said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

"George Kunz assured the republican leadership he would do his best to help settle the issue. At the same time, he drew Ziyad Sabsabi's attention to the fact that the destiny of Usman Saidaliev, the ICRC employee abducted in the Gudermes district of Chechnya in August 2003, remained unknown so far and asked to stir up actions to search for him," the official said.

Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent

Source: Caucasian Knot