STRASBOURG (France), June 1 (RIA Novosti) - A high-level delegation from Chechnya will take part Thursday in a roundtable session at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, PACE officials said.
The delegation includes the troubled North Caucasus region's president, Alu Alkhanov, and Dokuvakha Abdurakhmanov, speaker of the lower house of the Chechen parliament.
The roundtable is being held by the PACE special commission to discuss the political situation in the Republic of Chechnya June 1-2.
Russian parliamentary sources said the Chechen delegates will seek to convince PACE representatives that a roundtable on the situation in Chechnya should be held in Russia, not outside, thereby enabling PACE, which has often criticized Russia for human rights violations in Chechnya, to see for itself the positive changes that have taken place in the republic recently.
