Reported information about continued serious human rights violations in Turkmenistan indicates a lack of overall improvement in this area, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report to the General Assembly.
The United Nations refugee agency today hailed the decision of the Government of Turkmenistan to grant citizenship to over 10,000 Tajik refugees, most of whom who had fled civil war in their neighbouring Central Asian country between 1992 and 1997.
