WASHINGTON, January 16, 2004. /RIA NOVOSTI CORRESPONDENT/ -- Senior investigator of cases of particular importance of the Russian Federation's Prosecutor-General's Office Igor Tkachev announced that the US authorities are considering the question of extraditing eight Russian citizens, who are kept in custody at the US military base at Guantanamo together with other individuals detained in Afghanistan in the course of the military operation against the Taliban.
"They must be extradited, and the American side is ready to bring them to us", Tkachev said.
At Fort Belvoir military base in Virginia state on Thursday Tkachev had a meeting with the top officials of the US working group on criminal investigation, set up by the US Defense Department to conduct the cases of the individuals kept at the American base in Cuba. The US side handed more than 100 pages of investigation materials over to Russia.
