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On October 21, indignant residents of Beslan gathered at the building of the town administration. Their indignation was caused by the fact that material aid did not reach victims.

"Great Britain treats Azerbaijan's territorial integrity with respect, and such trips don't correspond with the interests of Great Britain therefore the government recommends not to pay such visits," embassy officials said.

The recipients will include internally displaced persons (IDPs) and vulnerable groups in central and southern Chechnya as well as IDPs in Ingushetia and Daghestan. Assistance includes: food and non-food items, medical support, shelter and water/sanitation, education, psychological assistance and vocational training.

The Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations has addressed a letter to Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis in connection with the conviction of seven opposition leaders.

Encircled rebels blew themselves up by grenades when their ammunition was over.

According to Gevorg Yazychan, a historian from Syria, real panic has started in Armenian settlements in Arabian countries today. Armenians in Iraq are transferring their children from Armenian schools to other Christian schools apprehending acts of retribution.

"The sentence passed on seven leaders of opposition political parties has political motives, and the convicts themselves are political prisoners," said director of the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan Eldar Zeinalov.

On April 8, 2004, the Russian air force bombarded the mountain village of Rigakhoi, Chechnya's Vedeno district. A young woman and her 5 children, the oldest of whom was 7, were killed by an air strike.

In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, chairman of the Musavat Party Isa Gambar stated that "today's statement has proved one more time there is no independent judicial system in Azerbaijan, and they [judges] depend on the will of the executive power, which chartered this shameful trial."

Kadyrov did not imparted concrete sources from which this information was obtained.

Such a policy implemented by Armenia has a negative effect on the process of resolving the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict by peaceful means, Metin Mirza, head of the Foreign Ministry's press service, said.

Co-chairman of the Azerbaijan-Russian inter-parliamentary commission Arif Ragimzade expressed a protest against accusations heard in Russia sometimes that Azerbaijan gives terrorists an opportunity to develop their activity in the country.

Attacks against federal soldiers and officers of local security agencies, which have become more frequent lately, are no more than rebels' try to show their abilities, Interior Ministry officials and Russian military men believe.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced yesterday, October 20, that a few days ago, officers of special services conducted an operation to detain saboteurs who had blown up a pier of a high-tension line in the Kaspsky district, bordering on South Osetia.

In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, a representative of the US Embassy to Azerbaijan, who observed the election and asked not to mention his name, called the voting procedure "a parody of the election".