DUSHANBE, June 28, 2016, Asia-Plus – Khorog, the capital of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), yesterday hosted celebrations dedicated to the 19th anniversary of National Unity Day of Tajikistan.
A decision on holding the main events dedicated to the 19th anniversary of the National Unity Day of Tajikistan in Khorog was made in January this year.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, President Emomali Rahmon participated in the celebrations in Khorog and congratulated Tajikistanis on this holiday.
Representatives of cities and districts of the country, Tajik intelligentsia as well as guests from 17 countries of the world reportedly participated in the celebrations in Khorog.
This year is the 19th anniversary of the National Unity Day of Tajikistan. Nineteen 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.
