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DATE=10/15/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=RUSSIA / CHECHNYA (L)
NUMBER=2-255070
BYLINE=EVE CONANT
DATELINE=MOSCOW
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: Russian military officials say their campaign 
to create a security zone around the breakaway 
republic of Chechnya has been completed. A Russian 
General says his forces will now begin a second phase 
of military operations designed to wipe out Chechen 
militants throughout the republic. V-O-A Moscow 
correspondent Eve Conant reports.
TEXT: Commander of federal forces in the Caucasus, 
General Viktor Kazantsev, says the first phase of 
Russia's military campaign in Chechnya is complete.
///ACT KAZANTSEV IN RUSSIAN IN FULL AND FADE UNDER///
"The first task of our counter-terrorist operation is 
finished," he says. "We have provided the security 
zone." 
Russia's military campaign was designed to set up what 
officials call a "sanitary cordon" around the northern 
part of Chechnya to prevent Islamic militants from 
attacking neighboring republics.
General Kazantsev says that after regrouping, Russian 
forces will move into a second phase of the operation 
to, as he put it, "destroy criminal gangs throughout 
the entire territory of Chechnya." 
///2ND ACT KAZANTSEV IN RUSSIAN IN FULL, FADE UNDER///
"Let them feel our presence," he warns. "They should 
expect us to appear at any time and at any place and