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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    September 22, 2004 Wednesday

    Exec committee of CIS religious council to meet in Moscow Dec 7

    By Yelena Dorofeyeva

    MOSCOW


    Executive committee of the CIS Inter-Religious Council is expected to
    have its first session in Moscow December 7, according to a decision
    that the Council took Wednesday.

    This organization unites the spiritual leaders of Russia's four
    leading denominations - Russian Orthodox, Moslem, Jewish, and
    Buddhist.

    "Initially, we had an idea of holding that meeting in the Caucasus,
    but after the events in Beslan [the seizure of a local school by a
    grouping of terrorists in the first days of September - Itar-Tass]
    the place was changed," said Russia's Chief Rabbi, Adolph Shayevich.

    The CIS Inter-Religious Council was set up in March 2004 at a meeting
    of spiritual leaders of the CIS countries. Its executive committee
    includes, apart from representatives of the above-said four
    denominations, the clerics of the Armenian apostolic church.

    All the countries of the CIS except Turkmenistan have their
    representatives on the executive committee.

    The charter of the Inter-Religious Council describes the
    organization's goal as "consolidating peace among nationalities and
    religions and fostering concord and stability in society".

    Top clerics of the member-confessions discussed the Beslan tragedy at
    the Wednesday meeting.
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