RUSSIAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST CALLS ON WEST TO TELL RUSSIA WHENCE TERRORIST MONEY AND ARSENALS COME








LONDON, MARCH 11, RIA NOVOSTI - Russia looks forward to information from the West about sources of weapon and money donations to Central Asian and Chechen terrorists, Grigori Yavlinsky, reformist Yabloko movement leader, says in a memorandum to a Tripartite Commission conference in London.


	Mr. Yavlinsky is not sure whether the West realises full well that Chechen and Central Asian criminal groups were setting up numerous paramilitary forces with overseas assistance from 1996 into 1999 to threaten Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.


	The memo calls on Western countries to join hands with Russia against terrorism.


	The Tripartite Commission is a nongovernmental forum of prominent political and business activists.