This file photo of 1999 shows Mairbek Vachagayev, then the envoy of Aslan Maskhadov to Moscow
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry Protests Inviting Maskhadov’s Envoy to the U.S.
Counselor of the U.S. embassy, Alice Wells, was summoned to the RF Foreign Ministry Thursday to face a protest about inviting to the United States Mairbek Vachagayev, the former envoy of Aslan Maskhadov, who had once been the president of rebel Ichkeria.
Mairbek Vachagayev, the former envoy of killed leader of Chechen separatists Aslan Maskhadov, has been invited to Washington to attend a regular conference on the North Caucasus held under the aegis of the U.S. Jamestown Fund, according to the statement of the RF Foreign Ministry.
”Holding in the United States the actions that advocate terrorism contradicts international commitments of the United States, including provisions of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy that the U.N. General Assembly has recently approved and Resolutions 1624, 1373, 1267, 1617 and 1566 of the U.N. Security Council,” says the statement of Russia’s Foreign Ministry.
Russia's diplomats also told Alice Wells Thursday that “the actual laissez faire policy of the U.S. authorities in respect of the anti-Russian actions was rather perplexing in view of improving counter-terrorism partnership of two countries.”
Vachagayev had been Maskhadov’s envoy to Moscow till June 2000, when he was arrested for illegal keeping of weapons. He was soon pardoned and left Russia. Vachagayev is said to be the resident of Paris now.
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