Knut Vollebaek, Chairman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Norweigan foreign minister, talks to a reporter during a brief stopover at Sheremetevo airport in Moscow October 4. Vollebaek said he had voiced his concerns to the Russian Government about the plight of refugees fleeing fighting in Chechnya, but stressed that the OSCE regarded the rebel region as part of Russia.

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