Warriors-Internationalists Affairs Committee

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The Warriors-Internationalists Affairs Committee is a central organization for participants of local wars of CIS that provides relationship between public organizations and state structures. The Chairman of Committee is Ruslan Aushev since August 1991.

1 Committee activities
2 See also
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Committee activities

In November 2007, during the Moscow conference "The role and place of veterans' organizations of Russia and the United States in developing and strengthening international cooperation" the Declaration of Cooperation Between the Warriors-Internationalists Affairs Committee and Veterans of Foreign Wars was adopted.^[1]^[2]

The Warriors-Internationalists Affairs Committee is involved in returning former POWs from Afghanistan to Russia, as well as searching for and identifying Soviet soldiers that went missing during local wars or international conflicts. Each year, the Committee organizes two to three search expeditions in Afghanistan to return home the captives or the remains of perished soldiers.^[3] The Committee gathers information on the the crash site of the Il-76 got down on 1979-12-26 and the details of the Badaber uprising in 1985. In May 2008, the 12th search expedition, under the leadership of Rashid Karimov, returned from Afghanistan with the purpose to do not only establish the truth, but to determine the place of burial of remains of former Soviet prisoners of war as well.^[4]