But he said he and Russia agreed that the visit was postponed and not cancelled.
Nowak said September 4 that he is canceling his trip scheduled for October 9-20 to Russia's North Caucasus region after Russia put restrictions on his visit.
(AFP, Reuters)
The Chechnya Conflict
The Chechnya Conflict
The aftermath of a December 2002 Chechen resistance attack on the main government building in Grozny (epa)
CHRONOLOGY
The fighting in Chechnya has raged, with short breaks, since 1994. It has brought misery, death, and destruction to the North Caucasus republic and to Russia as a whole. View an annotated timeline of the conflict.
