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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.
Louise Arbour

UN human rights chief urges Tajikistan to take further steps on access to justice

27 April 2007
Tajikistan must take active steps to ensure there is wider access to justice and it should also allow local and international monitors to visit places of detention, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said today after concluding official talks in her visit to the country, the second leg of her four-nation trip to Central Asia.