We, participants from 19 countries at the 15th International Meeting of Centers for Pluralism consider it inadmissible to use military force in settling political and ethnic conflicts as in most cases this leads to mass violations of human rights and, what is most important, the basic right - the right to live, call for:
 

• Immediate cessation of military operations on the territory of the Chechen Republic;
• Negotiations between the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin and the President of the Chechen Republic A. Maskhadov on peaceful resolution of the Russian-Chechen conflict;
• Withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of the Chechen Republic;
• International organizations to act as guarantors of the protection of human rights and international legal norms in the Chechen Republic, as well as new democratic elections in Chechnya with participation of all political and public movements and citizens of the Chechen Republic irrespective of their place of residence.

 
 

April 16, 2000