DUSHANBE, April 14, 2015, Asia-Plus – The Tajik MFA information department reports 29 other Tajik nationals were evacuated from conflict-torn Yemen on April 12.
According to the Tajik Embassy in Doha (Qatar), Tajik nationals have been evacuated from Yemen by planes of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
Besides, 16 other Tajik nationals crossed in Oman and yesterday they arrived in the United Arab Emirates.
Meanwhile, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports two Russian IL-62s carrying more than 3666 people evacuated from Yemen, including citizens of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, landed at the Chkalovsk airfield in Moscow oblast on April 12.
Russian planes reportedly have ferried scores of Russian nationals as well as nurses, doctors, and medics from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan out of Yemen in recent days.
According to Radio Liberty, the Tajik Embassy in Qatar estimates that there were around 200 Tajik medical workers in Yemen before the current fighting started. About 100 have reportedly been evacuated to Russia, from where some have returned to Tajikistan.
Tajik Foreign Ministry said recently that its embassy in Qatar is trying to relocate Tajik citizens in Yemen to safer areas before returning them home with the help of Russian authorities and companies.
Five Gulf states, Egypt, Pakistan, Morocco and several other Sunni Muslim countries launched a series of airstrikes against the Shia Houthi rebels, who had gained control of the capital and large swathes of territory in the west of the country on March 25.
Neighboring Saudi Arabia, has taken full control of the country’s air and sea ports, purportedly to prevent the inflow of weapons from abroad. Riyadh has openly accused its regional arch-rival Iran of funding the rebels, and fomenting unrest in the country of 25 million people.
