"The United Nations has already put over 100 organizations linked with Al Qaeda on the black list on our initiative or under our support. Three of them are involved in crimes on Chechen territory," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the State Duma (lower house of parliament) deputies.
"We have other lists which Russia wants to add to the UN black lists," he noted.
Among terrorist organizations inflicting the greatest damage on Russia are the Supreme Military Council of Mujahedins of the Caucasus (leader Shamil Basayev), the Congress of Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan (leaders Shamil Basayev and Movladi Udugov), and the Party of Islamic Revival (run by Hizb-ut-Tahrir al-Islami international network).
The Russian Federal Security Service prevented 70 sabotage and terrorist acts during its preventive operations. FSB director Nikolai Patrushev who also addressed the deputies today did not specify the period of these operations.
According to Patrushev, the FSB ceased the activities of Hizb-ut-Tahrir in Russia, arrested leaders of sabotage terrorist units and seized a great number of extremist books, weapons and explosives.
