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Acrobat Distiller, Job Danish Refugee Council ASF / Danish People’s Aid North Caucasus Situation Report No. 49 DRC/ASF PROGRAM OF EMERGENCY AND INTEGRATION ASSISTANCE TO THE VICTIMS OF THE ARMED CONFLICT IN CHECHNYA 31 May 2002 In the news The DRC wishes to stress that the content of this particular chapter are quotes from the Russian and international press and do not necessarily express the opinion of DRC. Suspected perpetrators of the terrorist act in Kaspiysk have been Other News detained, said Russian Federal Security Service head Nikolai Patrushev and Deputy Russian Prosecutor General Sergey Fridinsky The UN missions delivered some 2,250 on May 10. The names of the suspects are not revealed in the tons of food to Chechnya and interests of investigation. There is a possibility to identify the direct Ingushetia in April 2002, a representative of the UN office on mastermind of the crime, Patrushev said. The Daghestani Interior coordination of humanitarian issues Ministry reported the act of terror in Kaspiysk claimed 39 lives. The said in an interview with RBC on 8 May. explosion took place May 9, on the Victory Day, at Kaspiysk's Central The humanitarian aid consisted of flour, Square, when the military orchestra was walking from the square to butter, sugar and salt. The aid is to be the cemetery. The explosive device was placed on the edge of the disseminated among more than road the column was walking along. A directed-action anti-personnel 157,000 people in Chechnya and some mine fitted out with a landmine was used to commit the act of terror 144,000 refugees that are living in in Kaspiysk. [RIA Novosti] Ingushetia. [RosBusinessConsulting] On 13 May, Gennady Troshev, in command of the North Caucasus On May 9, during the Victory Day festivities in Grozny unknown gunmen military district, cited intelligence reports saying Chechen warlord opened fire at the Dynamo stadium Shamil Basayev has been killed. When asked by reporters, on where top republican officials, war Monday, whether the terrorist was really dead, Mr. Troshev said he veterans and common residents of the possessed intelligence information testifying to the fact. Too many Chechen capital gathered to celebrate conjectures were made and too many doubted the news of the 57th anniversary of Russia's victory international terrorist Hattab's death, recalled the commander. in the Great Patriotic War. Preliminary However, everybody had to admit the fact when evidence was reports say fire was opened from an provided, said Mr. Troshev. He then appealed to wait until under-barrel grenade-launcher. One indisputable evidence is given. "Anyway, 'field commanders' are policeman was seriously injured. Republican police are combing the getting less and less numerous," noted the commander. [RIA- vicinity of the stadium in search of Novosti] assailants. [Interfax] The Chechen government has decided to transfer all Chechen Jose Maria Robles Fraga, Spanish refugees from tent camps pitched in Ingushetia back to Chechnya, Ambassador to Russia, Lars Vissing, refugees from tent camps pitched in Ingushetia back to Chechnya, his Danish counterpart, and Richard Chechen Prime Minister Stanislav Ilyasov told the press. Ilyasov said Write, in charge of the European Union that he has discussed this problem, among others, with a UN representation in Russia, are visiting the delegation headed by UN senior security officer Terence Burke North Caucasus, May 15 into 18, reports the ambassadorial information on May 15. Ilyasov also noted that he reached an agreement with adviser's staff of Spain, currently EU foreign diplomats stipulating that humanitarian organizations should chair country. The visitors aim to obtain move their basic operations from areas adjacent to the Chechen firsthand information about Chechen border directly onto Chechen territory. [Interfax] developments. As their schedule has it, they are arriving tomorrow morning in Rebuilding Chechnya will require an investment of 3 billion USD and Nazran, capital of Ingushetia, which demand years of work, a Russian official said May 15, as rebel borders on Chechnya, for conference attacks continued to claim the lives of federal servicemen in the with Ahmed Malsagov, republican breakaway republic. Mukhamed Tsikanov, Russia's deputy economic acting president. [RIA Novosti] development and trade minister, told that the Russian government's An agreement of friendship and main goal was to encourage the hundreds of thousands of Chechen cooperation was signed between refugees who fled the 2 1/2-year-old war to return home. But, he Chechnya and the neighbouring said, Chechnya's infrastructure - power and gas supplies and heating republic of Ingushetia in Grozny on May - must first be put in working order. [Interfax] 29. This is the first such agreement in history. It covers the two republics' The chairman of the Russian Audit Chamber, former Prime Minister cooperation in economy, trade, science Sergei Stepashin, was named the next head of the European and culture. The head of Chechnya's Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) at its fifth administration, Akhmad Kadyrov told the press that the agreement created a annual congress in Moscow on 27 May, ITAR-TASS reported. legal basis for cooperation between the Stepashin, who will head the organization for the next three years, two republics and that it officially sealed called for increased measures to crack down on money laundering the brotherly relations of the two and to cut off financing to criminals and terrorists, the news agency nations. [RIA-Novosti] reported. [Radio Freedom] DRC/ASF Registration Ingushetia DRC/ASF continues the implementation of the program on-going registration of IDPs residing on the territory of Ingushetia. The goal of the project is to register humanitarian assistance’s beneficiaries for the aimed distribution of relief items, both food and non-food. The beneficiaries’ database is up-dated fortnightly. The information on number of IDPs arrives to DRC FO Nazran from four DRC/ASF Information Centers (1 in Malgobek, 1 in Sleptsovsk and 2 in Nazran). The data are processed, and the result of the registration is available for use of other relief agencies and interested official institutions. According to the latest DRC/ASF survey data as of 30.05.2002, the number of IDPs staying in Ingushetia constitutes 131,906 persons. The majority of the IDPs live in Sunzhenskiy District of Ingushetia, neighbouring to Chechnya (47,971 persons). The vulnerable part of IDPs is equivalent to 23,401 persons (including pregnant women, nursing women, children under 1 y.o., children under 3 y.o., invalids, elderly without adequate support, orphans, half-orphans and people fully depending on humanitarian assistance). According to the registration data, approximately 20% of IDPs live in tent- camps, 21,2% - in spontaneous settlements and 58,8% - with host families. For details, please see Annex 1, Tables 1, 2. Chechnya As of 30.05.2002, the Chechnya population constituted 784,495 persons, having as many as 139,953 inner IDPs in the area (Annex 1, Tables 3, 4, 5). Besides, the vulnerable part of Chechnya population constitutes 121,822 persons. The Chechnya database is served by 5 DRC/ASF Information Centers (in Urus-Martan, Shali, Gudermes and two in Grozny). The picture of IDPs and local population’s presence in the republic has insignificantly varied for the last months. The migration process is due to such factors as mopping-up operations, unstable security situation, limited access to essential products, resulting in reflux of citizens from the area; and campaigns for support of IDPs, resulting in influx of IDPs and local population to more safe and stable regions of Chechnya. Distribution Ingushetia WFP/DRC/ASF Joint Program of Emergency Assistance In May 2002, DRC/ASF continued implementation of the Emergency Program in cooperation with the World Food Programme. The aim of the program is to provide IDPs living on the territory of Ingushetia with the basic food commodities, such as wheat flour, salt, sugar and vegetable oil. From 1 to 30 May, there were distributed: 1,396.183 MT of flour, 15.513 MT of salt, 103.421 MT of sugar and 103,421 bottles of oil (in the total – 1,610.26 MT). The humanitarian assistance was distributed among 103,421 beneficiaries in Karabulakskiy, Malgobekskiy, Nazranovskiy and Sunzhenskiy Districts of Ingushetia. Since the beginning of implementation of WFP food distributions in the republic on 18 February 2000 and up to 31 May 2002, DRC/ASF have distributed more than 38,802.441 MT of food. (Annex 2, Table 1). DRC/ASF permanent distribution points in Ingushetia: Food rations (WFP items) Flour – 10 kg per person In Ingushetia, DRC/ASF distributes food commodities through 23 Salt – 0,15 kg per person distribution points (DP): Sugar – 0,5 kg per person Oil – 1 bottle per person NAZRAN (7 DPs): Plievo, Nazran City, Altievo, Gamuzi, Barsuki, Nasyr-Kort. DRC/ASF warehouse facilities SUNZHA (7 DPs): Sleptsovskaya, Alkhasty, Galashki, Troitskaya, Malgobek (non-food) - 1,098 m2; Muzhichi, Nesterovskaya, Chemulga. Nazran “Kamaz-Center” - 3,960 m2; MALGOBEK (9 DPs): Psedakh, Sagopshi, Noviy Redant, Nazran-3 (food/non-food) – 1,302 m2; Nazran-4 (non-food/building materials) Zyazikov-Yurt, Voznesenonskaya, Aki-Yurt, 2 Verkhniye Achaluki, Sredniye Achaluki, Nizhniye – 470 m ; Nazran-5 (building materials) – 2,547 Achaluki. m2; Plievo (food) – 2,750m2. KARABULAK (1 DP): Karabulak Town and suburbs. Chechnya DRC/ASF Program of Emergency Assistance to the people of Chechnya Within May 2002, DRC/ASF delivered to schools of Grozny and to Areas of DRC/ASF food distribution in Chechnya: other beneficiaries of Chechnya food assistance financed by WFP. - ECHO-funded distribution: Urus- The Emergency assistance consisted of wheat flour, salt, sugar Martanovskiy, Gudermesskiy, and vegetable oil. This month, DRC/ASF delivered to the republic Shalinskiy, Kurchaloyskiy, Nozhay- Yurtovskiy, Vedenskiy Districts and 2 1,342.36 MT of food.
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