DUSHANBE, June 26, 2015, Asia-Plus – Tajik President Emomali Rahmon is holding a meeting with representatives of Tajik student youth on the occasion of the National Unity Day.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, the meeting is being held in the building of the Tajik Agricultural University and the meeting participants are reportedly exchanging views on issues related to the National Unity Day, studying modern sciences and professions, ways to prevent youth radicalization in the country, and respect to older generation.
This year is the 18th anniversary of the National Unity Day of Tajikistan. Eighteen 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.
