DUSHANBE, May 17, 2013, Asia-Plus — Muhammadali Hayit, the deputy head of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRP), has called on the Tajik authorities to cover the civil war events impartially.
He remarked this at a meeting dedicated to the Tajik civil war events that took place at the Dialogue of Civilizations Foundation in Dushanbe on March 16.
Underlining a special role of the protocol signed during the round of consultations between the confronting side that took place in Khusdeh, Afghanistan in December 1996, Hayit noted that the Tajik authorities today misrepresented the situation that had existed in that Afghan area during the consultations.
“A documentary that has been shown on the Tajik national TV channels notes that the situation in Khusdeh was allegedly dangerous but despite the mortal danger representatives of the government went to Khusdeh for negotiations with representatives of the Tajik opposition,” said Hayit. “But actually it was not so. The northern part of Afghanistan was under control of Ahmadshah Massoud and full security was provided in Khusdeh during the consultations. Therefore, no danger threatened members of the government delegation.”
We will recall that Tajikistan celebrates the National Unity on June 27. Sixteen years ago, on June 27, 1997, the confronting sides signed in Moscow the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan.
For the purposes of achieving peace and national accord in Tajikistan and overcoming the consequences of the civil war, inter-Tajik talks on national reconciliation were conducted from April 1994 to 1997 under the auspices of the United Nations.
Protocols that were agreed and signed in the course of eight rounds of talks between delegations of the Government of Tajikistan and the United Tajik Opposition (UTO), six meetings between the President of Tajikistan and the UTO leader, and also three rounds of consultations between the delegations of the sides in Almaty, Ashgabat, Bishkek, Islamabad, Kabul, Mashhad (Iran), Moscow, Tehran and Khusdeh (Afghanistan) constituted the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan.
