MOSCOW. March 25 (Interfax-AVN) - A plan of the restoration and reconstruction of Chechnya was presented to reporters in Moscow by officials of several state and political bodies on Monday.
"It is not a plan of Chechnya's social and economic restoration. It covers a broad range of problems including political ones, as well as possible mechanisms and means of overcoming the crisis in Chechnya," Valery Tishkov, director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology under the Russian Academy of Sciences told reporters at the presentation.
According to him, the plan envisages three key spheres of stabilization in Chechnya, these being the initiation of a coordinated process of the republic's restoration, strengthening and protection of civilians' rights, and the necessity for development of the political settlement process.
Dzhabrail Gakayev, chairman of the Chechen public and cultural organizations coordination council, said that "there has been no breakdown in the peaceful reconstruction of Chechnya so far." "The policy that has been conducted since the beginning of the anti-terrorist operation has played out. The Chechen people want peace, but they have become hostages to the situation when the separation between local residents and federal forces is going on as a result of mine warfare," he said.
Gakayev stressed that "the pin-point actions against rebels has become ineffective in Chechnya and hit local residents." "There is a need to change the vector. Continuation of the current policy in Chechnya is a dead end. A change of people in power, in particular, Kadyrov, will result in nothing. Chechnya needs the change of authorities, free democratic elections, in short, we should start everything from scratch," he said.
According to Gakayev, "a certain part of the military contingent is interested in the continuation of the military conflict."
The volume of oil production in Chechnya is three times higher than the official statistics, the chairman told Interfax- AVN. "The oil is being sold, and profits are obtained by certain military leaders both from the Defense Ministry and other law- enforcement agencies," he noted.