A common threat

So the foremost common concern for all nations should be to root out this menace through a comprehensive and sustained effort and uniform measures.

But, it is regrettable that the notorious "double standard" by the Bush administration and a number of western countries, in reality, consists of seeking to achieve their own political interests and a position of superiority. They are using this policy of "double standard" with regard to the Chechen events. The small autonomous republic of Chechnya in the Russian Federation has long become a hub for international terrorists. Several foreign militants have been killed in the region in recent years, including Khattab, a Jordanian-born warlord, who took responsibility for the bombing of homes in Moscow and Volgograd in 1999 that claimed more than 300 lives.

The senseless and brutal slaughter of hundreds of children at a school at Beslan should have served as a wake-up call to the international community to jointly tackle terrorism. Double standard is entirely inadmissible because it could result in a slip of the common international position against the common evil.