LONDON, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Monday that he believed the Chechen issue should be resolved by the Russian government itself and needed no intervention from an outside organization like the United Nations.

    "This is something which is bound to have to be resolved by the Russian government...It is within their state and they have been taking steps to deal with it," Straw said in an interview with the BBC.

    On the school terror attack that reportedly killed more than 300 people in the Russia's North Ossetia Region, Straw said that it was absolutely fundamental to focus on the grief and sense of loss of the families of those killed and of the Russian people as a whole, instead of on the political situation in Chechnya.

    "Sometimes we are too swift to move away from the original and fundamental causes of such terrorism, namely the terrorists who perpetrated such an act, and shift away to other things, in a sense taking for granted their culpability," Straw said.

    Straw also told the BBC that Britain had offered Russia any help or advice it needed during the Beslan hostage crisis.

    The British government has strongly condemned the school siege in Russia, with British Prime Minister Tony Blair writing to Russian President Vladimir Putin to express his "revulsion at the inhumanity of terrorists prepared to put children and their families through such suffering." Enditem