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North Caucasus Security Watch, November 29

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MOSCOW, November 29 (RIA Novosti)

Below is a summary of the main security-related events in the North Caucasus on November 29, 2005

* A North Ossetian parliament commission investigating the Beslan school tragedy in September 2004 made public its final report

* Stanislav Kesayev, the head of the North Ossetian parliamentary commission investigating the Beslan school crisis in September 2004, said the law enforcement agencies had not possessed any prior information about the terrorist attack

* The North Ossetian parliamentary commission investigating the Beslan school crisis in September 2004 said it was not satisfied with the reaction of law-enforcement agencies to the terrorist attack

* Regional police said over 30 officers from the special purpose police detachment of Veliky Novgorod in Russia's northwest had been sent to Chechnya to replace other policemen whose six-month tour had come to an end

* Maj. Gen. Mikhail Sukhodolsky, Russia's deputy interior minister, said at a meeting with Kabardino-Balkarian policemen that law enforcement agencies in the republic were prepared to counter terrorism

* Former North Ossetian Interior Minister Kazbek Dzantiyev, who resigned after the Beslan school tragedy in September 2004, was questioned in the republic's Supreme Court as a witness

* An Interior Ministry spokesman said police had discovered an arms cache in Chechnya

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