MOSCOW – Mayor Giuliani told Kremlin officials yesterday that when Americans mourn the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks this year, they also will be thinking of those who lost their lives in the Russian school hostage siege last week.

“Even though these are things that you hope and pray don’t happen and you realize that are very tragic, this will bring our people together, because we have been through something very similar,” said Mr. Giuliani, who was mayor three years ago when Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, used the Giuliani visit to reiterate criticism of America and Britain for granting asylum to Chechen separatists, accusing them of interfering and aggravating the situation in Chechnya.

Separately, 10 of the terrorists who seized the school have been identified, and six were from Chechnya, security officials said yesterday, drawing a strong connection to the Chechen insurgents. None were Arabs, despite the government’s contention that Arabs were involved in the hostage-taking last week in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, which ended in gunfire and explosions that killed more than 350 people.

According to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the other four militants came from Ingushetia, which is sandwiched between North Ossetia and Chechnya and was targeted in brazen coordinated attacks against police that killed 90 people in June.