20/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - Shamil Basayev, Head of "Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs" was added on 14 August to the European list of terrorists and terrorist organisations (Official Journal L206 of 15 August). The assets that he holds in the European Union are to be frozen. The European decision follows that of the United Nations to place Shamil Basayev on the black list, a decision taken the same day. The United States had declared him a terrorist one week earlier. The Chechen group under Shamil Basayev had already been added to the European black list in March. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov welcomed these measures which, he says according to the Interfax agency, are a "sign of the international community's increasing understanding of the actual threat coming from the rebels active in Chechnya".