Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov (2ND R) gestures before talks with his counterparts from Finland, Tarja Halonen (2ND L), and Portugal, Jhime Gama (R), and Chris Patten (L), the European Union's foreign relations commissioner, in Moscow October 7. Moscow said on Thursday there was no need to for any kind of international mediation between Russia and Chechnya, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.

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