Russian Defense Ministry demands extradition of Chechen rebel

VLADIVOSTOK. Nov 5 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has said that Akhmed Zakayev, a representative of Chechen elected president Aslan Maskhadov, must be extradited to Russia.

Zakayev was detained by Danish law enforcement officials.

"The Defense Ministry has a clear-cut position that any terrorists, as well as those who finance them, must be brought to justice," Ivanov told journalists in Vladivostok on Tuesday.

The defense minister is on a working trip to the Far East.