News Digest
TURKMENISTAN READY TO HAND OVER ALLEGED TURKISH PARTICIPANTS IN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmenistan is preparing to hand over six Turkish citizens implicated in an alleged assassination attempt against Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, an official newspaper reported Monday. The six accused will be sent back to Turkey where their involvement in the alleged plot to kill Niyazov will be examined by Turkish magistrates, the official Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported. The Turkmen government says Niyazov\'s motorcade came under fire Nov.MORE SENTENCES HANDED DOWN IN TURKMENISTAN
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Seven more people --including former Turkmen Foreign Minister Batyr Berdyev and Konstantin Shikhmuradov, brother of former Foreign Minister Boris Shikhmuradov -- were sentenced on 21 January to prison terms of between six and 25 years and branded traitors to the fatherland. All were found guilty of participating in the alleged 25 November attempt to assassinate President Saparmurat Niyazov. (ITAR-TASS).TWO CHECHEN INTERNET SITES TO BE SHUT DOWN
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Internet sites of the Chechen Committee for National Salvation and the Council of NGOs are to be shut down as of 24 January, chechenpress.com reported on 22 January. Galina Borisova of the Internet provider mastak.UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ASSESSES ABKHAZ SITUATION
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a 13 January letter to the UN Security Council (http://daccess-ods.un.org/TMP/2834276.Visit also
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