TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian official said that Tehran is striving to help provide security in the region of Caucasus.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of CRI (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) in the government of President Aslan Maskhadov, Akhmed Zakayev, may soon return to Chechnya.

US President George W. Bush, fresh from declaring Russia’s offensive in Georgia “completely unacceptable,” was to map out a response Saturday in talks with his top national security aides.