By empty (6/23/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District Dmitrii Kozak met in Grozny on 22 June with relatives of the Avar families who fled the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya for neighboring Daghestan following a sweep operation on 4 June in which at least one person was killed and 11 were detained. Kozak condemned the sweep operation as \"an act of sabotage directed against Chechnya, Daghestan, and Russia,\" and he vowed that those responsible will be apprehended and punished. The Prosecutor-General\'s Office of the Southern Federal District has launched an investigation into the operation, which the Russian human rights group Memorial said on 22 June was conducted by Sulim Yamadaev\'s Eastern Battalion.

By empty (6/23/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has expressed concern over recent events in Uzbekistan. Speaking at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Thursday, de Hoop Scheffer said that unjustified force was used to suppress the rallies in Andizhan. NATO, in cooperation with European organizations, is ready to do everything necessary to establish freedom and democracy in Europe, De Hoop Scheffer said.

By empty (6/23/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Uzbekistan\'s embassy in Kyrgyzstan announced in a statement on 22 June that the Uzbek Prosecutor-General\'s Office has requested the extradition of at least 13 asylum seekers currently housed in a camp in Kyrgyzstan\'s Jalalabad Province, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. \"At present, 100 citizens of Uzbekistan and 31 citizens of Kyrgyzstan who are located in the tent city [in Kyrgyzstan] have been identified as direct participants in acts of terror and charged in absentia,\" the statement said. \"Thirteen individuals in the camp were illegally freed by terrorists from prison [in Andijon on the night of 12 May], and requests have been conveyed for their detention and extradition to Uzbekistan,\" said the statement.