Chechen State Council Chairman Taus Dzhabrailov, commenting on reports that separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov wants to negotiate with Russia\'s leaders, said there will be no replay of the violence of the mid-\'90s. \"By making such statements, Maskhadov is trying to pose as a significant political figure,\" he told Interfax on Tuesday. \"A return to 1996 would spell a new tragedy for the republic\'s people. Maskhadov failed at that time to make good use of the rights the Russian leadership conferred to him. Instead, the republic was plunged into chaos, economic collapse, and armed infighting,\" Dzhabrailov said. \"Maskhadov failed in 1996-99 to govern. He effectively handed it over to Basayev and the like and plunged the Chechen people into tragedy,\" he said. \"There is nothing to negotiate with Maskhadov,\" he said. Commenting on Maskhadov\'s remark that his emissaries meet with political figures in the West, Dzhabrailov said: \"Quite a few European countries want to perpetuate instability in Chechnya.. They want Chechnya to remain as Russia\'s bleeding wound so as to maintain pressure on Russia,\" he said. Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Britain, where Maskhadov\'s supporters have information centers and media outlets, are doing their best to prevent a permanent settlement in Chechnya, Dzhabrailov said. (Interfax)