Turin/Agency Caucasus – The Turin city of Italy will host a conference in remembrance of the Chechens who were sent into exile on February 23, 1944.
The conference would enjoy as speakers the participations of both Umar Hambiyev, who was the Minister of Health under the rule of Aslan Mashadov, and Bruno Mellano, a Radicals member of the Italian parliament, according to news put online on Radicali.it, the official web site of Radicali Italiani, or the Italian Radicals.
Both the Radicali Italiani, and the Transmilli Radical Party, which has granted Umar Hambiyev the General Assembly membership, have been making efforts for many years to mobilize the international community against the colonial war of Russia against Chechnya.
The Radicals conducted an international campaign in 2003 and successfully had as many as 40,000 people petition for the establishment of a temporary United Nations administration in Chechnya, which is also referred to as the Mashadov-Ahmadov peace plan project.
The Radical members of the Italian parliament started a campaign last March when Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Italy for granting Umar Hambiyev the right of asylum in Italy. As the campaign later proved successful, Putin, in Rome, had to tell Hambiyev that there was nothing he should see as a threat to his security in Chechnya. Putin afterward invited Hambiyev to Chechnya. When the Italian government granted him an official status, however, he chose to remain in Italy. KSPRV/ÖZ/HT
