"Defending human rights in relation to honest peaceful citizens, one cannot allow those who are under the strong suspicion of being involved in financing terrorist activities to find a ready welcome in Europe," said the minister at a press-conference in the Hague.
Defending hums rights, one can indulge in another extreme as well, added Lavrov.
"People being wanted for their complicity in terrorist events or connivance at terrorism are busy voicing their opinions in the mass media, making appearances on silver screens and being invited to press-conference in Europe, where they make declarations about the inevitability of acts of terrorism as long as the Russian government persists in its current policies. At this, they are certain to make sssurances of having nothing to do with terrorism personally," said Lavrov (implying the former Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky and the Chechen separatists' emissary Akhmad Zakaev, who have gained political asylum in Britain, as well as Ilyas Akhmedov harboured in the United States).
In the opinion of the Russian foreign minister, this cannot be called otherwise than connivance at terrorism.
Commenting on Netherlands Foreign Minister Bernard Bot's article against terrorism, Sergey Lavrov described it as a thought-out one urging more effective methods in the anti-terrorism drive.
The article also points to the necessity of observing human rights in the course of this battle, according to Lavrov. "We share this position and Russia is taking measures to have this done."
Lavrov reports that anti-terrorism efforts were in the focus of his talks with the European Union's Three.
"We conducted dialogue with each of the EU countries on the necessity of more effective bilateral moves for resolving definite problems as well as reaffirmed our concern for the development of multi-lateral forms of cooperation," he said. He alluded to contacts with the UN Counter-Terrorism committee and the efforts to step up the OSCE's efficiency. "There is the belief that the OSCE's foreign minister session in Sofia this December should call for more specific schemes to undermine the life of terrorists and their accomplices," said the minister.
He referred to relevant schemes already available in Russia, the USA, France, Bulgaria and other countries.
