ビンディグ（欧州評議会議員）のチェチェン問題追及

　欧州評議会議員総会(PACE)のドイツ選出議員ルドルフ・ビンディグは、最近１３日の法務人権委員会でチェチェンについての報告し、「あいかわらず人権侵害が続いている」と指摘した。ロシア側はこの報告にいたく立腹の様子(訳す予定なし)。ところで、チェチェン戦争において、「ドイツのシュレーダーが一番の悪人だ」という意見を聞いたことがあったが、「独前首相に集中砲火　ロ合弁会社の責任者に就任」[共同]を読むと一目瞭然で、裏付けられた感じ。[MI]

CHECHNYA UNDER DISCUSSION IN PARIS
Nezavisimaya Gazeta, December 14, 2005, pp. 1, 6
By Andrei Terekhov

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) member Rudolf Bindig presented a new report on the situation in Chechnya at yesterday's meeting of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human
Rights. This report has drawn a negative response from the Russian authorities. In this exclusive interview, Bindig comments on Moscow's reaction and describes the PACE's attitude to the Chechnya issue.

Question: What are the main points in your new report on Chechnya?

Rudolf Bindig: We emphasize that the PACE is deeply concerned about serious human rights abuses which are still widespread in Chechnya, and occasionally in adjacent regions. All this is happening in an atmosphere of impunity. We, the members of the PACE, are critical of the situation in Chechnya. I have recorded around a hundred instances of serious human rights abuses taking place over the past 18 months to two years. We also find it frustrating that the Council of Europe's
Committee of Ministers does not address these serious abuses on a regular basis.

Question: Leonid Slutsky, first deputy chairman of the Duma's international affairs committee, has described your report as "inaccurate." Slutsky also called you a "sworn opponent" of Russia. What would you say to that?

Rudolf Bindig: I consider myself a good friend of Russia. It's not my objective to analyze political developments in Chechnya. I focuse on human rights abuses. All my descriptions are based on first-hand information. I do not have any anti-Russian feelings. I'm a good friend of Russia, trying to help the people of Chechnya and to prompt state agencies, especially the Prosecutor General's Office, to start investigating lawbreakers and support those who oppose any continuation of human rights abuses.

I can't understand why Mr. Slutsky, with whom I'm personally acquainted, holds this opinion of me. Perhaps his statements are motivated by the domestic political situation in Russia. In any case,
his comments with regard to myself and my report are not objective.

Question: How would you describe the overall state of relations between the Council of Europe and Russia? What are the main points of contention?

Rudolf Bindig: We can see progress in a number of areas. But we are also openly critical of negative trends, especially the human rights situation in Chechnya - where, I repeat, the situation is
unsatisfactory. My colleagues and I visited Chechnya two weeks ago, during the parliamentary election there. We talked to people in the street. We were told that people are living in fear, and their families are victims of severe human rights abuses. Our task is to determine the underlying reasons for these problems.

Translated by Elena Leonova