Date: July 28, 2006 6:16:39 PM PDT
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Russia's list of terrorist organizations does not include Hamas or Hezbollah
Russia's list of terrorist organizations does not include Hamas or
Hezbollah
The Associated Press, July 28, 2006
MOSCOW
Russia on Friday published a list of 17 groups it regards as
terrorist organizations, but did not include the Palestinian militant
movement Hamas or Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group, both regarded
as terrorists in Washington.
Separately, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Hezbollah must have a
say in any agreements in the Middle East crisis, Russian news
agencies reported _ another sign of differences between Russia and
the United States about the region.
"Any agreements must be coordinated with all the basic forces in
Lebanon, including Hezbollah, as an organization that is represented
in the parliament and government of Lebanon," RIA-Novosti reported
quoted Lavrov as saying on a plane returning from an Asian security
meeting in Malaysia. Hezbollah has 11 members in Lebanon's 128-seat
parliament, and two Cabinet ministers.
The terrorist list, published in the official daily Rossiiskaya
Gazeta, included al-Qaida and the Taliban as well as the Pakistan-
based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a rebel group fighting for Kashmir's
independence from India, and Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood.
The Russian Federal Security Service's top official in charge of
fighting international terrorism, Yuri Sapunov, said Hamas and
Hezbollah were not a major threat to Russia and were not regarded as
terrorist groups worldwide.
But he said Russian security agencies took account of international
lists of terrorist groups when exchanging intelligence with foreign
counterparts.
Sapunov told Rossiiskaya Gazeta the list of 17 "includes only those
organizations which represent the greatest threat to the security of
our country." Groups linked to separatist militants in Chechnya and
Islamic radicals in Central Asia made the list.
Russia has come under criticism for its refusal to list Hamas and
Hezbollah as terrorist organizations.
Israel is now fighting a ground and air war in Lebanon against
Hezbollah guerrillas, who are firing rockets into northern Israel.
Israeli forces have also attacked the Gaza Strip to target Hamas
militants. Russia has criticized the scale of the Israeli offensive,
while the United States has blamed Hezbollah for the violence.
President Vladimir Putin earlier this year provoked U.S. and Israeli
anger by inviting leaders of Hamas to Moscow shortly after their
January election victory. The meeting made no progress in softening
the group's refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist or foreswear
violence.
Lavrov's reported comment about Hezbollah echoed the arguments
Russian officials made for inviting Hamas leaders, when they said
that they were dealing with Hamas as an entity that had just come to
power in elections.
Lavrov said that Russia's support for a Hezbollah role in decision-
making in the Mideast crisis was shared by European countries and
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, adding: "As for support from the
Americans for this position, I have no such information," RIA-Novosti
reported.
The European Union considers Hamas a terrorist organization and along
with the United States slapped financial sanctions on the new Hamas-
led government. But it does not list Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
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