The commission which he is a head of checks the organization of everyday activity, readiness of the CIS GPF units in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone to the fulfillment of the peacekeeping mission they are entrusted with.

A passport-checking operation began on the early morning of September 17 in the Bella tent camp for displaced Chechens. It was conducted by officers of the Ingush Interior Ministry's Migration Service. The Ingush Migration Service intends to close this camp and to relocate its inhabitants to Chechnya or some other place in Ingushetia.

The council of representatives of Armenian organizations in Samtskhe Javakhksky and Kvemo Kartliysky regions of Georgia called upon the Armenians of the regions to be a united front during the parliamentary elections coming on November 2 in Georgia.

The aim of the project is to created conditions for the spiritual rehabilitation of children and teenagers from families of refugees and displaced persons that had been in extreme situations.

11 out of the 15 Turkish journalists questioned spoke against the opening of the borders between Turkey and Armenia. It is reported in a news release of the Turkish-Azerbaijan Center of Media Researches.

The state security service of the unrecognized republic does not exclude that the abduction was organized by one of the Georgian groups of sabotage that are sent from Georgia to Abkhazia's Gali district.

"NGOs have sizeable intellectual potential. You have work experience, and we should cooperate for the sake of our republic's prosperity", stressed the prime minister.

After Atakishev's release, two men sentenced by the Nardaran events stay imprisoned. They are Alikram Aliyev, Islamic Party Chairman sentenced to 6 years, and Jebrail Alizade, the head of the Union of Baku and Baku villages sentenced to 8 years.

This action has started in the Bella camp, located near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, where refugees have written two complaints: one of them is addressed to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and the other to a court in Moscow.

The Independent Information Center has been created within the limits of the project "The Media in the Election Process" brought about by Internews Azerbaijan and the Press Club of Baku with the support of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

The first batch of Chechen refugees, who are now living in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, will be able to return home in late September-early October, according to Stanislav Ilyasov, Russian Minister for Chechnya's Affairs.

The Ichkerian State Defense Committee headed by Aslan Maskhadov warned about "coming vengeance" on all the Chechen presidential candidates, according to the Committee's resolution published in the underground newspaper "Ichkeria".

More than 200 scientists studying Armenia from 25 countries arrived in Yerevan to the International Congress on Studying of Armenia, which is taking place on September 15-20.

The UK Government called on the World Bank and other international credit organizations not to hurry to allot funds for the pipeline construction.

As the activist of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" in Nazran Shakhman Akbulatov noted, the explosion in Magas will undoubtedly complicate a situation in Ingushetia, and Chechen refugees settled in Ingushetia can indirectly suffer from this action.

A meeting of Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijan parliamentarians under the aegis of the London information network on conflicts and state-building (LINKS), a British non-government organization, is to take place in Scotland before the middle of October.

Representatives of the Chechen Diaspora in Kirgizia - activists of the Chechen cultural center "Bart" - complained of xenophobia at a recent meeting with Russian ambassador Yevgeny Shmagin.

The displaced persons think Order 23/4449 of August 1, 2003 on the liquidation of the tent camp "Bella", which was signed by Federal Migration Service Deputy Head Major-General Yunash, is inhuman, going against Russian President Putin's statements and to be countermanded.

Levon Mkrtchian, the leader of the National Assembly's faction "ARFD", declared it. According to him, the mortals can not be given the right to kill a man.

Prosecutor of the Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi Kovalenko brought criminal proceedings by the article "slander" against Leonid Teleleyko, a well-known human rights activist and public figure of the Krasnodar region and Sochi. The writ was handed in by former Lazarevsky District Court Deputy Chairman Trukhan N. I. Teleleyko is articled for his publications in the Chernomorskaya Zdravnitsa and the Sochi newspapers in 2002.