Polish Foreign Minister Regrets Actions Of His Subordinate

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MOSCOW, March 12 (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - On Friday night, news about a telephone conversation between Russian and Polish foreign ministers appeared in the media.

It was not an ordinary conversation. According to well-informed sources, Sergei Lavrov called his Polish counterpart Adam Rotfeld in connection with recent statements made by Polish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Alexander Checko. The Polish foreign minister expressed regrets about the actions of his subordinate.

Mr. Checko made a statement calling the elimination of Aslan Maskhadov, one of the Chechen terrorist leaders, "not only a crime, but a serious mistake and a political folly."

It is a strange statement, indeed. Elimination of one of the most dangerous international terrorists is a crime? Elimination of a person who, for example, ordered Shamil Basaev to attack the territory of Daghestan, a republic neighboring with Chechnya in order to start the building of a Caliphate from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea is a big mistake? Ridding the world of a terrorist whose name is connected with hostage taking on Dubrovka and killing of children in Beslan is a political folly?

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