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European Parliament recommendation to the Council on EU-Russia relations (26 February 2004)

Recommendation whose paragraph 15 says Parliament "Believes" the 1944 deportation of the entire Chechen people was an act of genocide.

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Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) paragraph 15 says Parliament "Believes" the deportation of "the entire Chechen people" was an act of genocide; the Ingush are not named Primary record 1
Russia the recommendation ties EU partnership with Russia to the settlement of Chechnya Primary record 1 2

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26 Feb 2004 European Parliament recommendation to the Council on EU-Russia relations (26 February 2004)

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European Parliament recommendation to the Council on EU-Russia relations (2003/2230(INI)), P5_TA(2004)0121, adopted 26 February 2004, European Parliament (Internet Archive copy), 26 Feb 2004. Primary record
Believes that the deportation of the entire Chechen people to Central Asia on 23 February 1944 on the orders of Stalin constitutes an act of genocide within the meaning of the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907 and the Convention for the Prevention and Repression of the Crime of Genocide
European Parliament recognizes deportation of Chechens and Ingushetians ordered by Stalin as genocide, Caucasian Knot, 1 Mar 2004. Scholarship & press
The development of partnership between Russia and the European Union depends on the settlement of the situation in Chechnya, where massive human rights violations take place, the European Parliament believes.

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