120 graduates of the Border Guard Institute at the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) have been given military rank of Lieutenant and received their diplomas this year, Muhammad Ulughkhojayev, a spokesman for the SCNS Main Border Guard Directorate, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
An official graduation ceremony of 120 young lieutenants reportedly took place and the SCNS chief, Colonel-General Saymumin Yatimov, congratulated them on graduation from the institute.
Young officers will be sent to frontier posts across the country, Ulughkhojayev said.
The Border Guard Institute is a higher education institution for training of officers for the Tajik Border Troops, located in Dushanbe. Special courses are held here, overseen by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
