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GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Appearing in person for the first time in days, Chechen President Dzhokar Dudayev said today he remained willing to talk with Russia and end the fighting in his republic. He said there was “no other resolution” but peace.There was no evidence of it in the battered Chechen capital. Heavy artillery shelling rocked the center, and fierce fighting shattered an uneasy calm thatWe’re willing to end fightinghad prevailed early in the day.Russia’s parliament held an urgent session on the war. One lawmaker said Russian forces appeared en route to a “pyrrhic victory,” and another said 1,500 Russian soldiers had been killed in the month-old conflict.In Brussels, the NATO alliesurged Moscow to end the violenceand negotiate a peaceful solution.Dudayev set no conditions for negotiations and said only apeaceful solution could end the war.“There is no other resolutionbut a peaceful one,” he said. “We were and still are ready for the fourth year now for peaceful negotiations, but Russia is trying to break in an already open door. No one knows why.”Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, declared Chechnya’s independence from Russia in 1991.Dudayev was flanked by heavily armed bodyguards as he spoke to journalists brought to a building in Grozny. He called peace imperative for progress.“Only after you put out the flames can you see what remains and what you have to rebuild again,” he said. “The issue now is to stop the military action and stop the senseless casualties from both sides, senseless casualties and senseless destruction.”
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