President Jiang Zemin said in Beijing today that China supports Russia's move to crack down on terrorism and separatism in Chechnya and safeguard its national unity and territorial integrity.

The Chechen issue is an internal affair of Russia, Jiang noted, underlining that no country has the right to intervene in a sovereign nation's crackdown on terrorist and splittist activities within its territory.

President Jiang made the remarks during the second round of his informal meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin earlier today. (Xinhua)