By Libya Herald reporter.
Tripoli, 8 October 2015:
The president of the continuing General National Congress in Tripoli, Nuri Abu Sahmain, today met . . .[restrict]with a visiting Russian delegation, mainly from Chechnya. Led by Adam Delimkhanov, a member of the Russian Duma (parliament), the delegation discussed ways of developing relations between Libya and Russia as well as the latest developments in the UN-brokered Libya Dialogue process.
The five-man delegation also met the Tripoli prime minister, Khalifa Ghwell.
Although Delimkhanov is member of President Putin’s United Russia party, the delegation is not viewed as an official one by Moscow, which strongly supports the House of Representatives in Torbuk and its Beida-based government, but rather as a Chechen affair.
A cousin of the controversial pro-Moscow Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and a former Chechen deputy prime minister in charge of security forces, Delimkhanov is himself something of a controversial figure. He has always strongly denied allegations by the police in the United Arab Emirates at the time of any involvement in the 2009 murder in Dubai of Sulim Yamadayev, a Chechen warlord and opponent of Kadyrov. The UAE later dropped its accusations. [/restrict]
