Dushanbe police directorate holds meeting to sup results of work carried out in 2005

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DUSHANBE, January 9, Asia-Plus — On Monday January 9, the Dushanbe police directorate held a meeting to discussed the results of work carried out by the Dushanbe police last year, the Dushanbe police directorate press service reported. 

Jaloliddin Sadriddinov, chief spokesman for the Dushanbe police directorate, has told Asia-Plus that 3,205 crimes were reported in the Tajik capital last year, which is 247 cases fewer compared to 2004.  2.749 crimes were solved and the crime detection rate amounted to 87.1 percent, according to Sadriddinov.   

During the meeting it was noted that more than 107 kilograms of drugs were intercepted in Dushanbe last year.  Besides, officers of the Dushanbe police directorate confiscated 67 sub-machine-guns “Kalashnikov”, 29 pistols, six machine-guns, 67 grenades and a large amount of bullets of different caliber.  

Officers of the department for detecting crimes of the previous years (1992-2005) solved 322 crimes last year.  The totaled included 14 killings and murder attempts, seven crimes that entailed serious bodily injury, five terrorist acts, 29 cases of banditry and robbery, and 162 cases of theft.

International and local organizations render assistance to disabled children affected by Dushanbe blaze

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DUSHANBE, January 9, Asia-Plus — A number of local and international organizations active in Tajikistan have started rendering assistance to disabled children hit by the orphanage’s blaze in Dushanbe.  

Saidahmad Zardon, a spokesman for the Tajik Ministry of Labor and Social Security, has told Asia-Plus that as of late Monday [January 9] more than ten organizations have provided assistance to the disabled children that become victims of the fire.   

Thus, a number of enterprises based in the Dushanbe district of Sino have provided 50 sets of bed-clothes and three heating appliances.  

The UNICEF Country Office in Tajikistan has provided 150 blankets, 100 hygienic packets and other relief supplies.  Moreover, the UNICEF Country Office in Tajikistan has expressed readiness to provide assistance in rehabilitation of the orphanage, the labor ministry’s spokesman said, adding that the issue of future rehabilitation of the burnt orphanage for children with mental disabilities is being considered at the governmental level.  

Update: President Rahmonov reprimands deputy prime minister, labor ministers

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DUSHANBE, January 9, Asia-Plus  — The Tajik president has reprimanded a deputy prime minister and minister of labor and social security for failing to organize adequate control of structures being under their jurisdiction, presidential press service reported. 

On Monday January 9, Tajik President EmomalI Rahmonov convened an extraordinary meeting on the fire in the “Chorbogh” orphanage in Dushanbe that killed thirteen children.  Heads of relevant ministries and organizations, including energy ministry, ministry of labor and social security, emergencies ministry, firefighting service and the law enforcement agencies attended the meeting to discuss the cause of the tragic incident.   

President Rahmonov sharply criticized state structures, labor and social security ministry for failing to properly organize control over organizations being under their jurisdiction. 

Deputy Prime Minister Khairnisso Mavlonova, Minister of Labor and Social Security Zokir Vazirov and the head of the Labor and Social Security Department within the President’s Executive Office Bobokhon Mahmadov were reprimanded.  

Rahmonov demanded at the meeting that Tajik Prosecutor’s Office should investigate the circumstance of the tragedy within ten-day period and punish those being guilty.  He ordered that the results of the investigation should be reported to him personally, according to presidential press service.   

By president’s order the Ministry of Labor and Social Security should organize the victims’ funeral.

Rahmonov telling the meeting noted that a single center for disable children meeting all international standards would be built in Tajikistan in near future, according to presidential press service.  Deputy Prime Minister Asadullo Ghulomov is to take adequate measures to provide workout of the center’s design in the shortest possible time and submit it to the government.

TadAZ pays US$16 million for electricity imported from Uzbekistan in autumn-winter season

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, January 9, Asia-Plus – Tajik Aluminum Plant (TadAZ) has already paid US$16 million for electric power imported from


Uzbekistan


in the autumn-winter season, Asia-Plus has learned from a high-ranking official with TadAZ. 

The TadAZ official commenting on a statement made by deputy head of the “Barqi Tojik” open joint-stock holding company, Jamshed Mansurov, that TadAZ’s debt to “Barqi Tojik” for electricity was US$18 million, noted, “In early January, we paid 16 million USD for electricity imported from Uzbekistan for the country’s needs.” 

“To date, the finance management system at the plant has been reorganized and all payments are made in good time,” said the Asia-Plus interlocutor, “And partners, including the power engineering workers, do not have any grievance against the plant.” 

Representatives from the TadAZ claim that the plant’s large debt to “Barqi Tojik” was formed last year, under the rule of the previous administration.  “At present this problem is being solved and in the beginning of this year, the plant transferred to “Barqi Tojik 50 million Somonis to clear off the previous debts,” said the source, “Besides, one million US dollars were transferred to “Tojikgaz” for the consumed gas.”

Round-the-clock duties to be organized at all enterprises in Tajik capital during winter period

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, January 9, Asia-Plus – Now twenty-four-hour duties will be organized at all enterprises in Tajik capital till the end of winter. 

            Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev held an extraordinary meeting of the Dushanbe authorities on Sunday following the fire at the orphanage for children with mental disabilities in Dushanbe on the night of January-7-8 that killed thirteen children.  

Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor, has told Asia-Plus  that Ubaidulloyev demanded at the meeting that the city firefighting service should inspect all enterprises and organizations in Dushanbe with object of their meeting requirements of the fire-prevention measures.  

The Dushanbe branch of the “Barqi Tojik” open joint-stock holding company is to distribute agitation leaflets calling for rational use of electric power and observance of the fire-prevention measures, according to the mayoral spokesman.  

Deputy Dushanbe Mayor, Pulod Muhiddinov, is charged to take adequate measures to render assistance to the fire victims.  

 According to Saidov, heads of all educational institutions based in Dushanbe, senior representatives from the law enforcement agencies, Tajik firefighting service, energy ministry, gas concern and mahalla (community) committees attended the meeting.  

Fire in the Dushanbe orphanage caused by negligence of its administration, says district prosecutor

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, January 9, Asia-Plus – Administration of the “Chorbogh”  orphanage is to blame for the fire that broke out in the orphanage and killed thirteen children.

               Nasrullo Mahmudov, prosecutor of the Dushanbe district of Ismoili Somoni, remarked this today morning in his interview with Asia-Plus commenting on the blaze that occurred in the “Chorbogh” orphanage on the night of January 7-8.

            According to him, the Ismoili Somoni district prosecutor’s office instituted criminal proceedings against the orphanage’s bursar Ilhom Ashurov in last November already.  He faced charges under Article 192, Part 1 of Tajikistan’s Criminal Code – not satisfying requirements of the fire-prevention measures.  On November a court in Ismoili Somonis district of Dushanbe found Ashurov guilty and imposed a fine of hundred minimal wages on him, according to the prosecutor.  “The other reason for the fire was short circuit that was also caused by negligence of the orphanage’s administration,” Nasrullo Mahmudov said. 

            The prosecutor also denied reports by some media that grilles had allegedly been placed on the orphanage’s windows as “unfounded”.    

Over US$5.104 million and some RR 14 million remitted by labor migrants from Konibodom to their relatives last year

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            KONIBODOM, January 9, Asia-Plus – Labor migrants from the northern district of Konibodom (Sughd Province) staying in Russia and other CIS countries remitted 5.104722 US dollars and 13.962809 Russian rubles to their relatives in 2005, which is US$2 million more compared to a total amount of funds remitted by them to Konibodom in 2004, Asia-Plus has learned from Rustamjon Qodirov, deputy Konibodom mayor.    

“In 2004, 16,000 people left Konibodom for Russia and other CIS countries seeking better employment opportunities, while in 2005, the number of Konibodom residents, who left for Russia and other CIS countries in search of seasonal work, reached almost 20,000 people,” the Asia-Plus interlocutor said.  

President Rahmonov holds extraordinary meeting of government on the orphanage blaze today

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DUHANBE, January 9,


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-Plus – Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov has convened an extraordinary meeting of the Tajik government on the fire in the “Chorbogh” orphanage in


Dushanbe


that killed thirteen children.

The ongoing meeting has gathered heads of relevant ministries and organizations, including energy ministry, ministry of labor and social security, emergencies ministry, firefighting service and the law enforcement agencies to discuss the cause of the tragic incident.   

By president’s order a special commission to investigate the causes of the fire, organize the victims’ funeral and render assistance to the survivors was set up yesterday, January 8.  The Tajik president demanded that the circumstances of the tragedy be investigated in the shortest possible time and the results be reported to him personally, according to presidential press service.  The Tajik president expressed deep condolences to relatives of the victims.

Medicinal Information Center given legal status

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KULOB, January 9,


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-Plus — Initiative group for establishment of the


Medicinal


Information


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in Kulob has received an official consent for functioning and been given a status of public association entitled “Farmokon”.  

The “Farmokon” chief Jumakhon Nazarov has told Asia-Plus, “Participating in one of projects managed by international organization ZdravPlus, members of the initiative group and recruited skilled pharmacologists conducted 54 seminars in all ten districts of the Kulob region of Khatlon Province.” 

According to Nazarov, their center will be engaged not only in carrying out explanatory work among the population on how to handle and store medicinal preparations but also in organizing anti-drug and AIDS-prevention campaigns among youth.  

“Tojikgaz” supplies to Dushanbe thermoelectric power plant only 50 percent of the planned volume of gas

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DUSHANBE, January 9, Asia-Plus — For normal provision of the Dushanbe population with heat we need natural gas at rate of 55,000 cubic meters per hour, while “Tojikgaz” (Tajik state gas concern) supplies us only some 50 percent of the planned volume,” Rahmatullo Qalandarov, engineer-in-chief at the Dushanbe thermoelectric power plant, said in his interview with Asia-Plus.  

According to him, they received only 14 million cubic meters of gas in December instead of the originally planned 40 million cubic meters.  “According to our estimates, the same amount we will receive in January as well,” said Qalandarov, “Tojikgaz” and “Barqi Tojik” (Tajik electric system) administrations have concluded an agreement on supply of 230 million cubic meters of natural gas to the Dushanbe thermoelectric power plant during the winter period.” 

Besides, “Barqi Tojik” should supply 25,000 tons of fuel oil to the Dushanbe thermoelectric power plant, according to him.  “To date, we have received 21,000 tons and the fuel oil supply is still ongoing,” the Asia-Plus interlocutor said.   

“The Dushanbe thermoelectric power plant is not able to work in full capacity because of lack of enough amount of fuel,” Mr. Qalandarov said. 

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