MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said Thursday it forwarded a protest to the U.S. embassy in Moscow against the participation of a former emissary of a Chechen separatist leader at a conference on the North Caucasus in Washington.
Mairbek Vachagayev is a former envoy of Aslan Maskhadov, who was involved in the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 and was killed in March 2005.
The Foreign Ministry said the conference, organized by the non-governmental organization the Jamestown Foundation, was "an event that promotes terrorism and contradicts U.S. international obligations, including provisions of the Global Strategy for Fighting Terrorism recently approved by the UN General Assembly," as well as a number of UN Security Council resolutions.
"The U.S. government's tolerance of anti-Russian events is incomprehensible in light of the evolving partnership of our two countries in the fight against terrorism," the ministry said.
