London - Moscow, April 15, 2004. The FSB colonel Alexander Litvinenko who found the political asylum in England, the author of the books "FSB blows up Russia" and "LCG - Lubyanka Criminal Group", joined today the appeal initiated by the Transnational Radical Party to support Akhmadov's Peace Plan for an interim UN administration in Chechnya.

In this connection Alexander Litvinenko stated by phone from London:

"I consider the war continuing in Chechnya as a crime. In 1997, a peace agreement was concluded between Russia and Chechnya. Thus, Russia recognized the independence of Chechnya de jure and de facto. Being a FSB officer, I was at war in Chechnya during the first war. But I am convinced: peace treaties should be observed. Aslan Maskhadov is the legally elected president of Chechnya, and the president Putin who began the second Chechen war is a criminal. The war should be stopped, Russian troops should be immediately withdrawn from Chechnya and replaced with an interim international administration and international forces, the Russian government should compensate the Chechen people for everything it destroyed in the course of the war, and military criminals should be brought to justice.

I am convinced: those people from the Chechen Resistance who struggle for the political solution of the Russian - Chechen conflict; those who conduct the anti-war and democratic struggle in Russia (like my friend Mikhail Trepashkin, imprisoned for his attempt to reveal the truth about "Nord-Ost", like you, radicals, like human rights activists Lev Ponomaryov and Alexander Podrabinek, like many other Russians); those who like me or Akhmed Zakayev, being in the West, continue to struggle - all of us are members of one team which fights for peace, freedom and democracy, to overthrow by democratic, nonviolent methods the fascist regime of Putin which actually tries to return our country to a dumb and slave condition".