DUSHANBE, June 23, 2012, Asia-Plus – An international scientific and theoretical conference formally titled “Tajikistan – Fifteen Years of Accord and Unity” will take place at the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk, Belarus on June 26.
The CIS Executive Committee press center reports the event is organized by the Tajik Embassy in Minsk in cooperation with the CIS Executive Committee as well as the Parliament the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Chairman of the Board of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Anatoly Rusetskiy will officially open the conference.
Tajik Ambassador to Belarus Qozidavlat Qoimdodov will deliver a statement at the conference. In his statement, Ambassador Qoimdodov intends to analyze the stages and ways of reestablishment of peace and accord in Tajikistan and emphasize the historical meaning of Tajikistan’s experience in achievement of peace and stability.
First Deputy Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Vladimir Garkun, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Igor Petrishchenko as well as experts and researchers will also deliver statements at the conference.
We will recall that Tajikistan marks the National Unity Day on June 27. The General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan was signed in Moscow on June 27, 1997.
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.
