DUSHANBE, March 31, 2011, Asia-Pus — Six Tajik students evacuated from Libya arrived in Moscow today morning, according to the Tajik Embassy in Moscow.
“Six Tajik students that were studying in Tripoli – Karomatullo Sharifov, Buzurgmehr Sattorov, Rahamtullo Ahmadov, Temourali Abdullo, Tillomurod Rashidov and Mashrabjon Muhammadiyev – arrived in Moscow Thursday morning Thursday,” the source at the Tajik Embassy in Moscow said.
In the meantime, two other our fellow countrymen are still in unrest-torn Libya.
Tajik Foreign Ministry spokesman Davlat Nazriyev told Asia-Plus Thursday afternoon that according to the specified data, there were 28 Tajik nationals in Libya, most of them students.
“Abdurazzoq Ikromov, the four-year student from the International Al-Da’wa Islamic University in Tripoli, and one other Tajik national who is not yet identified are still in Libya,” said Nazriyev, “The student, according to himself, refused to return home.”
We will recall that 107 people, including 48 citizens of Russia as well as 59 citizens of Belarus, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan were evacuated by a plane of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations from Tripoli to Tunisia on March 30.
As it had been reported earlier, Tajikistan last month solicited Russian help in evacuating Tajik nationals from Libya, as Tajikistan does not have a diplomatic mission in Tripoli. The Tajik Embassy in Cairo worked with the Russian Embassy there to help resolve the problem. In the first weeks after the armed clashes began in Libya on February 15, 20 Tajik nationals were evacuated from there due to help of the Russian Federation.
