CHECHNYA OUTSIDE UN RIGHTS COMMISSION AGENDA

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GENEVA, March 14 (RIA Novosti's Ekaterina Andrianova) - The European Union does not intend, within the year, to offer a draft resolution on human rights abuse in Chechnya to the United Nations human rights commission for consideration. The information comes from Renault Muselier, France's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

"France and the European Union have no such draft for today," he said to a news conference on the United Nations HQ in Geneva.

Nevertheless, the European Union intends to express concern over human rights abused in Russia, China, Iran and certain other countries, added the diplomat.

Though the Chechen issue left the UN commission agenda several years ago, the EU is offering a last-instant draft resolution on Chechnya year in, year out.

"We cannot rule out the prospect," Yuri Fedotov, Russia's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, said in Moscow today as he was commenting the chance for EU countries and the USA launching a draft resolution on Chechnya.

However, he stressed, "we hope the common sense and pragmatism of our European partners and the United States will take the upper hand."

The UN commission made its latest resolution on human rights abuse in Chechnya, 2001.

The EU intends to join hands with other countries this year, and together offer to the commission six resolutions for consideration. They will concern Belarus, North Korea, Burma, the occupied Palestinian territories, Afghanistan and Colombia, said Mr. Muselier.

The United Nations human rights commission opened its 61st session at Geneva's Palais de Nations today, to last into April 22.

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