DUSHANBE, June 26, 2012, Asia-Plus — It will take decades to remove effects of the civil war in Tajikistan.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon remarked this today at a ceremonial meeting in Dushanbe. Dedicated to the National Unity Day, the meeting has been held at the Kokhi Borbad State Complex.
Addressing the meeting, Rahmon noted that it had not been an easy task to set confronting sides down at the negotiating table.
The president noted that Tajikistan that has gone through hardships of the civil confrontation always calls for peaceful solution to any arising problems.
President Rahmon also expressed gratitude to members of the Commission for National Reconciliation (CNR) for serious contribution they made to reestablishment of peace and national accord in the country.
He also offered to name one of squares in Dushanbe the Square of National Unity.
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.
