DUSHANBE, May 12, 2015, Asia-Plus – Today, Tajikistan handed over the Victory Relay Race to Uzbekistan.
According to the to the press center of the Main Border Guard Directorate at the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Tajikistan, the ceremony took place at the border crossing checkpoint Fotehobod on the Tajik-Uzbek border in Sughd’s Mastchoh district.
We will recall that Tajikistan took over the Victory Relay Race from Kyrgyzstan on May 7. The ceremony took place at the border crossing checkpoint Qizil Art in the Murgab district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
The Tajik capital, Dushanbe, welcomed the Victory Relay Race on May 10. The ceremony that took place in Dushanbe’s Victory Park was attended by SCNS chief Saymumin Yatimov, Russian and Belarusian ambassadors, war veterans and Tajik and Russian border guards.
The Victory Relay Race that began simultaneously in the Belarusian city of Brest and the Russian city of Murmansk on February 2 is going along the borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and will end at Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow on May 28, on a Day of Border Guards.
Similar events were devoted to the 50th, 60th and 65th anniversaries of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
