Akmed Zakayev to remain at large before extradition decision.

WARSAW, September 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Akmed Zakayev to remain at large
while waiting for the decision on his extradition. Warsaw's Court refused
on Friday night the prosecutor's request to arrest him.
"The decision of the court is not final, and the prosecutor may argue
it in an appeals instance," press secretary of the court Wojciech Malek
said. Zakayev is at large and may leave the country, he added.
"It may be possible that if the case of extradition is started, but a
request has never been received, he will come for the hearings," he said.
"Poland should respect the rights of other members of the European
Union," the Court said and referred to a UK court's decision.
"The fact that Zakayev got a status of a refugee in the UK is
non-disputable," Judge Petr Skhab said. "Beyond all doubt, a decision of
one EU member-country is valid for the whole of the European Union."
The court will not initiate any preventive measures for Zakayev, like
guarantees or a bail.
Earlier, prosecutor's press secretary Monica Levandowska said "there
should be most strict measures for Zakayev, i.e. an arrest."
"It is important for us that in this delicate case the procedure of
extradition is done precisely and the possibly soonest way," she said. She
explained this position by the character of claims presented in the
international incrimination order.
Zakayev was put on the international wanted list nine years earlier.
He was accused in Russia of committing major crimes like murders,
kidnapping, organisation of armed riot and participation in it with the
purpose of changing the Constitutional order and breaking the territorial
integrity of Russia. He was also accused of terrorism and other crimes.
Totally, he is accused of eleven criminal episodes.
Back in 2002, Zakayev was detained in Copenhagen in accordance with a
request from Russia, and spent 34 days arrested there. Denmark refused
Moscow's request, and Zakayev was liberated. Later on, he was arrested in
the UK. That country also refused Russia to extradite him and in 2003 he
got a status of a political refugee.


.Sochi-2010 forum to discuss 2014 Olympic Games preparations.

SOCHI, September 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Preparations for the 2014 Winter
Olympic Games will be on the agenda of the second day of the Sochi-2010
International investment forum on Saturday.
A business breakfast devoted to "the new transport infrastructures of
Olympic Sochi" will open the second day of the forum. The breakfast will
feature Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak and President of the Sochi-2014
Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko. The breakfast will be followed by a meeting
of the intergovernmental commission on the preparation and organisation of
the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 and the presidential council on
physical training and sports.
"The meeting of the intergovernmental commission, which will be
organised in an open briefing format, will let business and investment
communities get an update of the preparations for the Games and the
post-Olympic strategies of the city," the forum organisers said. "They
will get information on possible involvement in the projects in Sochi
before and after 2014."
Russia's Minister of Regional Development Viktor Basargin and
governors will take part in a conference on investment climate in the
regions. A special round table will be devoted to investment opportunities
in the North Caucasus.
Participants in the forum will analyse nano technologies projects,
will give an overview of tourism and housing construction. They will
exchange views on professional education. Russia's car-making will be
discussed over round tables on utilisation programme and on the ecology
project of a car for cities.
Sochi's mayor will host a reception, which will close the second day.
The forum will continue its work till September 19. About 3,000
participants will be able to network and even to have a rest at the resort.


.Commission on 2014 Games to work over Sochi forum.

SOCHI, September 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Commission on preparations
and organisation of the XXII Winter Olympic Games and the XI Winter
Paralympics in 2014 will be organised in the framework of the
International investment forum - Sochi-2010 on Saturday.
"The meeting of the commission, which will be organised in an open
briefing format, will let business and investment communities get an
update of the preparations for the Games and the post-Olympic strategies
of the city," the forum organisers said. "They will get information on
possible involvement in the projects in Sochi before and after 2014."
The commission will discuss the preparation for the Games and ways to
attracts business partners to projects of Sochi's development before and
after 2014.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, President of the Sochi-2014
Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko, and head of Olympstroi state corporation
Taimuraz Balloyev will update the forum participants on the process.

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