Tajik

Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan

Regional cooperation vital to combating drug trafficking, Tajik leader tells UN

23 September 2010
Curbing illegal drug trafficking requires regional cooperation to tackle root causes, Tajikistan’s President told the General Assembly today, spotlighting recent efforts by several nations to counteract the threats posed by terrorism and narcotics.
Rajabgul Rasulova of Tajikistan with her food rations [File Photo]

Tajik quake victims receive further UN aid as focus moves to reconstruction

13 January 2010
A further relief flight of United Nations aid comprising 100 winter tents, stoves and 600 blankets arrived in Tajikistan today for the victims of an earthquake earlier this month which destroyed over 140 houses and partially damaged more than 950 others, affecting some 7,000 people.
Food prices up on wheat price rise

Access to food still difficult for vulnerable Tajik families, reports UN

18 November 2009
The 2009 harvest in Tajikistan is exceptionally good, but access to food remains difficult for vulnerable families in the Central Asian nation, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
WFP has been providing daily hot meals to 360,000 children attending primary schools in rural Tajikistan

Malnutrition on the rise among rural Tajik children, UN warns

5 November 2009
Young children in rural Tajikistan are increasingly likely to be malnourished because of a lack of food, poor water quality and high prices for many basic products, United Nations aid agencies said today, warning that the children are now at greater risk of contracting infectious diseases.
A woman poses with her small children in Kaliab Valley, Tajikistan

Threat of floods and landslides in Tajikistan prompts UN humanitarian appeal

17 April 2008
The United Nations' humanitarian wing is urgently appealing for $1.4 million so that it can buy and pre-position emergency water, sanitation and cooking items for up to 1,500 households in Tajikistan, which faces the threat of floods and landslides after a severe winter across much of Central Asia.
Afghan refugees attending school in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Tajikistan and UN agency agree on deal to integrate Afghan refugees

2 April 2008
About 1,000 Afghans who have been living in neighbouring Tajikistan for up to 20 years will be able to apply for permanent residency and citizenship under a cooperation agreement worked out by the United Nations refugee agency and the Tajik Government.
Afghan refugees attending school in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Top UN official surveys Tajikistan’s treatment of refugees, asylum seekers

1 April 2008
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres is currently in Tajikistan, where he has been holding talks with the Central Asian country’s leaders on issues relating to the integration of Afghan refugees as well as asylum policies.
António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees

UN refugee chief to visit Tajikistan next week

28 March 2008
The United Nations refugee chief heads to Tajikistan next week for a three-day visit to the Central Asian country, which is home to more than 1,700 refugees and asylum-seekers, mainly from Afghanistan.
UN lowers flag in Tajikistan

Tajikistan: UN closes peacebuilding office at end of mission

1 August 2007
The flag was lowered for the last time yesterday over the United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peace Building (UNTOP), ending the world body’s 15-year political presence in the Central Asian country, first to help halt a civil war that killed over 50,000 people and then to further the consolidation of peace.

Ban Ki-moon marks tenth anniversary of peace agreement in Tajikistan

21 June 2007
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated the people and Government of Tajikistan on the tenth anniversary of the signing of the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord.