DUSHANBE, July 4, 2013, Asia-Plus – A conference entitled “Tajikistan on the Path to Peace and Accord” is taking place in Moscow on July 5.
Organized by the Human Rights Society and the Federation of Peace and Accord of Russia, the conference is expected to bring together Russian and foreign experts on Central Asia to analyze events that took place after the signing of the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan.
The Human Rights Society head Ezzat Aman says ambassadors of all Central Asian nations as well as ambassadors of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, where the rounds of inter-Tajik talks on national reconciliation were conducted, have also been invited to participate in the conference.
The Islamic Revival Party (IRP) leader, Muhiddin Kabiri, one of heads of the United Tajik Opposition (UTO), Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda, and one of participants of the inter-Tajik peace talks, Professor Ibrohim Usmonov are expected to attend the conference as well.
We will recall that the confronting sides signed the General Peace Agreement I 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.
