We can state with satisfaction that the plans of forced return of the displaced persons to Chechen territory have not been implemented. However, the position of the displaced persons both on the territory of Ingushetia and in tent camps on Chechen territory is extremely unfavourable. Several times during this spring and summer the food supply had been downgraded. A new decrease is observed at present. This is explained by deficiency of financial resources that were allotted from the budget.
Disaster is evaded only due to the help from the international humanitarian organizations.
Since mid May citizens of Groznii have been stopped given free food. Free bread is distributed now every two days only to the disabled and the retirees over 65. In conditions when pensions and salaries have not yet started to be paid this puts the majority of people in the town on the brink of survival. Events in Chechnya have a most adverse impact on all the sides of life in our country and threaten Russia s advancement in building the state of law. We are concerned that the governments of the Council of Europe member states would be inclined to easily satisfy themselves with the symbolic steps and minor concessions with which the government of our country had responded to the criticism by the Council of Europe.