Council of leaders of NCFD and RCCP make joint declaration

The council of heads of offices in the North Caucasian Federal
District (NCFD) and the Russian Congress of Caucasian Peoples (RCCP)
has published an official declaration on the mass unrest on Manezhnaya
Square in Moscow on December 11, 2010.

The message says that the events raise concerns among people from the
Caucasus living in Moscow. There are tens of thousands of their
compatriots working in Moscow, who had never separated people along
ethnic lines.

The events on Manezhnaya Square are aimed at starting chaos, fear and
mutual hatred, in order to help someone gain false political capital.
Such unrest was partly caused by cases of lack of punishment. The
authorities need to take measures to enforce the law and secure order
and to prevent further conflicts and new victims. The criminals need
immediate punishment, regardless of their nationality or religion, the
message reads.

The leaders of the NCFD and RCCP offices urge natives of the North
Caucasus living in Moscow, as well as Moscow citizens, to maintain
calmness and tolerance, to avoid rising to provocations of radical and
ultra-right forces and hooligans and to express mutual respect.

Heads of national communities in Moscow express confidence that those
who committed crimes and who covered them up, the organizers of the
mass unrest and disorder, will be punished.

The message was signed by the chairman of the presidium of the Russian
Congress of Caucasian Peoples, Aslambek Paskachev, and Alexander
Totunov, the chairman of the council of heads of offices in the North
Caucasian Federal District, deputy head of the North–Ossetia-Alania
government and authorized envoy of the Russian president.