Establishing the administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia will not lead to conflict between the two republics, the chairman of the parliament of the Chechen Republic, Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov, told a press conference in Stavropol on Thursday, Interfax reports.
"There will be no conflict. We are citizens of one country, so all controversial questions go to the Constitutional Court. Also, we are brothers and one people, how can we argue over land? There are government officials, the presidents of the republics, parliaments, that are authorized to address these issues around the table, and there will be no conflicts, this is not bravado," Abdurakhmanov insisted.
He added that those who speak about a possible conflict between the republics because of the administrative border are "those who do not work in the committee (the working group, which determines where to draw the administrative border between the republics) and do not represent the authorities."
According to the Chechen speaker, a working group to address the issue of establishing the administrative border has already started work, there is no tension in the commission, the issues are being resolved in a workman-like manner. At the same time, the commission's work is closed, the chairman of the Chechen parliament stressed.
"At the last meeting of the commission in Magas and Grozny, we agreed not to talk any more about this subject. Groups have been created within the commission , which then present their decision to the president, and the question is closed," Abdurakhmanov said.
He noted that it is not yet known when the commission's work will end.
According to the speaker of the Chechen parliament, the republic has now started to focus on measuring the administrative boundaries, as in 1992, when Ingushetia was created, saying "the Federal Communications Commission is not finalized until the end of the matter."
The speaker also said that the governments of Chechnya and Ingushetia are not going to combine into one republic. "The question of the union of the republics (Chechnya and Ingushetia) should be left in the past. That is what we agreed. Both Chechens and Ingush in the Russian Federation have established their states, and we need to go through a period of decades, and perhaps centuries, for the establishment of our countries," Abdurakhmanov said.
"The time will come, other politicians will come, the economic situation will change, there will be other federal interrelations. We will reframe this question (the union of Chechnya and Ingushetia). But it will be our descendants who will work on this. The question is not relevant at the moment," he said .
