"We believe that it is necessary to unite our counter-terrorism efforts," Mr. Aslakhanov told journalists in Washington.
According to him, his visits to the United States and Great Britain aimed at persuading western partners of the necessity to work out a legislative basis for joint fight against international terrorism.
"Terrorists should know what is in store for them - life imprisonment or a death penalty. We should take active steps against those who have declared war on us," the presidential aide stressed.
In his words, the possible extradition of Chechen emissaries Akhmed Zakayev and Ilyas Akhmadov (the latter was given political asylum in the U.S. and the former in the UK) was not on the agenda of his meetings in London and Washington. We did not discuss these issues, Aslambek Aslakhanov said.
On his part, a representative of the Russian Federal Security Service who accompanied Mr. Aslakhanov said that Russian and American special services are constantly exchanging anti-terrorist information.
He admitted that the U.S. special services had provided information about the summer explosions of Russian airliners. However, this information was not concrete and it was impossible to prevent the August 24 explosions of the Tu-154 and Tu-134 passenger lines, which headed for Sochi and Volgograd from Domodedovo airport. The air crash killed 89 people.
