Nalchik/Agency Caucasus – The Kabard-Balkar Center for Human Rights announced plans to move the tombs of Pshimafe Kosok, who was the Prime Minister of North Caucasian Republic in 1917-1919, and his wife Lutsa Misakova to their home land from Istanbul.
The Center announced that a special civilian committee would be set up to carry out the plans.
Pshimafe Kosok is an important figure, both symbolically and historically, for his contribution to forming unity across the Caucasus.
On April 25, 2007, President Arsen Kanokov of Kabardino-Balkaria was called upon to initiate the official procedure for moving the tombs to the homeland. The same call came not only from the relatives of Kosok and Misakova but also from the Adgyei Khase and Circassian Congress, based in the Republic of Adygeia, and from the Congress of Russian Caucasian Peoples, based in Moscow.
Valeri Hatijiko, Chairman of the Human Rights Center, said that the administration of Kabardino-Balkaria considered it to be positive to move the tombs.
The idea behind the setting up of a civilian committee was to combine forces with the administration, said Hatijikov.
The first meeting about how to set up this committee will be held on May 30 in the central office of the Center in Nalchik. KU/ÖZ/FT
