MOSCOW, JULY 30 /FROM RIA NOVOSTI CORRESPONDENT JULIA PANYUSHKINA/ -- In case the Duma committee for religious associations thinks unacceptable the presidential remarks regarding the law On the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations, which he has rejected, deputies will have enough votes to overcome the presidential veto. This opinion was voiced today at a press conference by Gennadi Seleznev, chairman of the State Duma.

Boris Yeltsin's rejection of this law surprised speaker Seleznev. He said that at the repeated discussions of the document by the presidential administration and the Council for Religious Associations "no substantial remarks had been made".

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Johnson's Russia List

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31 July 1997

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