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    Russian Children's Fund sends psychologists to Beslan

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    Sept 8 2004

    UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION, September 8 (Itar-Tass) - A group
    of specialists in emergency psychology has come to Beslan on the
    initiative of the Russian Children's Fund. Academician Valeria Mukhina
    is leading the group, which includes a number of doctors and candidates
    of sciences, Albert Likhanov, head of the Russian Children's Fund,
    told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. The group starts work on Wednesday morning.

    "Those people are professionals in the field. They worked with me
    in Armenia, during the Spitak earthquake, and later in Budennovsk,"
    Likhanov continued. He came to New York to attend the 57th World
    Conference of U.N.-associated Non-governmental Organisations.

    "Psychological aid is what North Ossetia needs most today. The famous
    Dr. Leonid Roshal has just returned from there. When I asked him what
    assistance is needed in North Ossetia as a matter of priority, he said:
    'Send psychologists there," Likhanov said.

    In the opinion of Likhanov, actually all the Beslan children are in
    need of psychological assistance. "Psychological help should be given
    to them, in order to help them overcome the shock," he said. The work
    will take several months.

    Assistance to the parents, who lost their children, will be a special
    sphere of work for the emergency team. "It will be even more difficult
    to do, because there is no consolation for a mother or a father in
    this situation. But we sent professionals there, and they are going to
    stay in North Ossetia for some time," Likhanov said. According to his
    information, Moscow specialists will train the local psychologists,
    who have higher education, but who have no experience of work in
    emergency situations.

    The head of the Russian Children's Fund is sure that any revenge,
    any actions in retaliation for what happened in Beslan "will trigger
    conflagration in the Northern Caucasus." "We must prevent it, because
    guiltless people will become its victims, the people who have nothing
    to do with the Beslan developments," he stressed.

    "Let us pray, pray and help those who remained alive. That place of
    the suffering of children should remain in the history not only for
    North Ossetia, but also of the whole of Russia," Likhanov said.
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