Meeting of "Memorial's" members with the European Council's Parliamentary Assembly's Head of Mission
January 21, the representatives of Human
Rights organizations - "Memorial" and Human Rights Watch and
the public association "Mothers of Chechnya" - all met with the
Mission of the European Council's Parliamentary Assembly. "Memorial"
was represented by Svetlana Gannushkina, Dmitry Grushkin and Alexander
Cherkasov. There was a two-hour conversation before the flight of Euro
parliament's members to the Northern Caucasus. The main question specially
interested Lord Judd, the Head of the Mission and concerned the attitude
of the human rights defenders to the referendum in the Chechen Republic,
planned for March 23. Participants were in unanimous agreement about the
impossibility to conduct any referendum under the conditions of armed conflicts,
etc.