DUSHANBE, October 16, 2008, Asia-Plus — In a report released at a sitting of the fifth session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament), Tajik Labor and Social Protection Minister Shukurjon Zuhurov revealed on October 15 that 9,400 veterans of wars and participants of wars and local conflicts, who had served in Afghanistan, China, Algeria, Angola, Hungary, Vietnam, Egypt, Cambodia, Laos, Lebanon, Yemen, Ethiopia and other countries in the Soviet time, currently live in Tajikistan. 404 of them are disabled people.
The minister noted that under its obligation, Tajikistan would allocate 500,000 Russian rubles for financing of the plan of actions for implementation of the concept of development of social and medical foundations of improvement of living conditions of veterans of wars, participants of local conflicts and peacekeeping operations as well as victims of terrorism in the CIS states.
According to him, the Tajik Government took such an obligation at a session of the council of the CIS heads of government in May 2006.
The minister called on parliamentarians to second this decision of the government and endorse the allocation of the mentioned funds from the national budget. “The funds will go to providing free medical service for the mentioned categories of people within the CIS area,” Zuhurov said.
Parliamentarians endorsed this decision of the government unanimously.
