Day: April 26, 2022

According to him, the parties have agreed on 600 kilometers [of the mutual border] and they have another 300 kilometers left to delimit and demarcate.

“Slow pace is not only on our side, it is on both sides. The border issue that has not been settled for 30 years will not be settled in a month. There are disputed segments. both sides will not be able to put up a fence until the disputes are resolved,” Kyrgyz leader said.

“People who do not understand this say that it would be better to build a fence. As soon as the controversies are resolved, the sides will begin to build a fence. Border crossing points will be open. Trade will begin. Relations with Tajikistan will be the same as they are with Uzbekistan now. I hope the relationship will continue as before,” Japarov added.

Recall, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon called on residents of the Tajik northern district of Isfara bordering Kyrgyzstan to live and work with their neighbors in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and neighborliness, communicate with them and establish friendly cooperation, be tolerant and not succumb to emotions.

His call, directed at residents of Isfara, came during an address to a meeting of Isfara administrators and public activists that took place in the northern city of Isfara on April 17.

“As the proverb says, neighbors are not chosen,” Emomali Rahmon was cited as saying by its official website.

He further noted that solution of border-territorial issues, delimitation and demarcation of disputed segments of the border are a very complex process and take a lot of time and require many efforts.

“Tajikistan is a firm support of negotiations to find a mutually beneficial solution to existing problems, taking into account the national interests of both parties. I emphasize again that borer issues between nations can be resolved only through negotiations, there is no other way,” Tajik leader said.

As it had been reported earlier, a shootout between Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards took place along the Tajik-Kyrgyz border took place on April 12. The incident occurred Tuesday (April 12) evening near the Khistevarz jamoat in the Bobojon-Ghafourov district of the Tajik northern province of Sughd.

As a result of the shootout, a 27-year-old Tajik border guard Zoir Saidumarov was fatally wounded; he died the same day at a hospital.

According to Kyrgyz sources, two Kyrgyz border guards and four Kyrgyz civilians were also wounded in the incident.

Tajik and Kyrgyz delegations met on April 13. The parties agreed to withdraw troops to permanent deployments, find out the causes of the incident and reached agreement on security, land tenure and irrigation issues. The negotiations ended with signing of an appropriate protocol.

On April 14, Tajik and Kyrgyz foreign ministers held a phone talk to discuss the situation along disputed segments of the border between the two nations after the April 12 deadly shoot-out involving border guards.

Source: Asia-Plus

“During our first year of immigrant visa processing, we anticipate welcoming numerous applicants from Tajikistan, including family members of U.S. citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents and Diversity Visa (DV) 2023 lottery selectees. Until October, U.S. immigrant visas for citizens and residents of Tajikistan will continue to be processed at the U.S. Consulate General in Almaty, Kazakhstan. DV2022 winners will continue to apply in Almaty until September 30, 2022,” says a statement released by the U.S. Embassy on April 25.

Over the next six months, the Embassy will work closely with the U.S. Consulate General in Almaty to ensure a smooth transition and will provide further information to visa applicants on our websites.

The United States and Tajikistan are celebrating 30 years of diplomatic relations in 2022. As the bilateral relationship evolves, U.S. consular services have expanded. The introduction of immigrant visa services in Tajikistan is a significant development that will continue to strengthen that bilateral relationship.

U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan John Mark Pommersheim noted that, “The United States has a long history of welcoming immigrants from all over the world. With this change in visa processing, we have made the path to obtaining an immigrant visa easier for Tajik citizens who qualify. This positive development is another historic milestone in the 30 years of active, positive, and friendly relations between our two countries.”

The Embassy’s Consular section reportedly provides a variety of services to U.S. citizens in Tajikistan, including registration of births abroad and issuance of passports. The U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe began offering nonimmigrant visa services in 2006 and has processed tens of thousands of applications. With the additional service of immigrant visa processing, the U.S. Embassy will now provide the full suite of consular services to citizens and residents of Tajikistan.

Source: Asia-Plus

The FSB said it arrested members of a “neo-Nazi terrorist” group which was plotting to assassinate the pro-Kremlin TV anchor on orders from Ukraine.

“The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation detained a group of members of the neo-Nazi terrorist organization National Socialism/White Power, which is banned in Russia,” the agency said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.

The FSB says the group of six Russians was planning the “murder” of Russian TV and radio journalist Solovyov “on the instructions of the Security Service of Ukraine”.

It added that the group “confessed to preparing the murder of Solovyov, after which they planned to flee abroad.”

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) said in a statement published yesterday on the Telegram messaging app that it “has no plans to assassinate V. Solovyov”.

Commenting on the alleged plot, Solovyov said in an interview with the RIA Novosity news agency, “What’s surprising about this? I am on view to everyone.”

“I am a Jew and an anti-Fascist so it’s obvious that I’m a target for [Ukrainian nationalist Stepan] Bandera-supporting, Nazi bastards,” he added.

Solovyov has hosted prime-time political chat shows on Russian television since the late 1990s and has been decorated by the Russian government.

He has been sanctioned by the European Union as a “propagandist” and has had villas seized by Italian financial police.

Source: Asia-Plus

By mayor’s ordinance issued yesterday Qosim Usmonzoda was relieved of his post of Head of the Dushanbe Main Directorate for Architecture and Urban Development.

According to the press center of the Dushanbe Administration, Qosim Umsonzoda has resigned on his own accord.

By another ordinance issued by Dushanbe mayor on April 25 Sami Aziziyon, who had previously served as Head of the State Unitary Enterprise (SUE) Dushanbeshahrsoz (Dushanbe Urbane Development), was appointed to head the Dushanbe Main Directorate for Architecture and Urban Development.

Source: Asia-Plus

According to RBC, Sergei Lavrov on Monday said in an interview on Russian state television the threat of a nuclear war “should not be underestimated” as he accused NATO of engaging in a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, a warning that comes a day after U.S. officials said Washington’s goal in the Ukraine conflict was to see Russia’s military capability weakened.

When asked about the risk of a third world war, Lavrov said Russia was doing everything to prevent nuclear war but those risks are now “considerable.”

Lavrov added that he was opposed to elevating those risks “artificially” but warned that the danger was “serious and real” and should not be underestimated.

In early March, one week after Russia launched its so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russia’s top diplomat warned that a destructive conflict involving nuclear weapons would happen if the third world war were to take place, according to Reuters.

Meanwhile, Western media reports say Russian forces took the Ukrainian city of Kreminna in the Lugansk region after days of street-to-street fighting.

“The city of Kreminna has reportedly fallen and heavy fighting is reported south of Izyum as Russian forces attempt to advance towards the cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk from the north and east,” the British military said in a tweet, according to ABC News. It did not say how it knew the city, 575 kilometers southeast of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, had fallen.

The United States has been rushing more weaponry to Ukraine and said the assistance from Western allies is making a difference in the 2-month-old war.

“Russia is failing. Ukraine is succeeding,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared Monday after he and the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Kiev to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Blinken reportedly said Washington approved a US$165 million sale of ammunition — non-U.S. ammo, mainly if not entirely for Ukraine's Soviet-era weapons — and will also provide more than US$300 million in financing to buy more supplies.

Mr. Austin, for his part, went further, saying the U.S. wants to see Ukraine remain a sovereign, democratic country, but also wants "to see Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.”

ABC News notes that Austin’s remarks appeared to represent a shift in U.S. strategic goals since earlier Washington said the goal of American military aid was to help Ukraine win and to defend Ukraine’s NATO neighbors against Russian threats.

In an apparent response to Austin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia has “a feeling that the West wants Ukraine to continue to fight and, as it seems to them, wear out, exhaust the Russian army and the Russian military industrial war complex. This is an illusion.”

Source: Asia-Plus

This year, 500 Tajik citizens will be sent to the UK for seasonal work, said the Director of the Pre-Departure Counseling and Training Center for Labor Migrants in Dushanbe Diyor Normatov.

According to him, 60 Tajik citizens are preparing their documents to receive visas to the UK.

“In accordance with the announcement of the Migration Service of the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Population of Tajikistan, over 200 citizens have been selected in the first stage of the process. Their documents have been submitted to the British Embassy in Tajikistan. Citizens are only required to speak conversational English,” he said.

According to Normatov, travel expenses will be paid by the citizens themselves. The employers will provide all citizens with a place of residence and permanent work.

“In the UK they work up to eight hours a day and earn up to $12 an hour. The term of the employment contract is six months. In six months, the Tajik migrant must return home,” he said.

Source: National information agency of Tajikistan

Dushanbe and Baku are planning to set up direct flights. This was announced by the Ambassador of Tajikistan to Azerbaijan Rustam Soli at an event dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

According to the diplomat, the authorities of the two countries are discussing the process of opening a direct flight connecting the two capitals.

In addition, new opportunities are being explored to increase trade between Tajikistan and Azerbaijan.

“There is great potential for increasing trade between the two countries. I think that the opening of a direct flight will also increase trade,” Soli said.

Earlier it became known that Tajikistan will resume air communication with India and Iran. Flights will resume after a two-year break associated with the coronavirus pandemic.

“After a two-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tajikistan will resume flights on the routes Dushanbe-Delhi-Dushanbe, Dushanbe-Nursultan-Dushanbe, and Dushanbe-Tehran-Dushanbe with a schedule of two flights per week,” reports the Civil Aviation Agency of Tajikistan.

Somon Air has already started carrying passengers to and from Delhi. It is known that Iran Air will operate flights to Tehran, but the exact date of the first flight has not yet been specified.

Additionally, Tajikistan will increase the number of regular flights to Almaty, Dubai, Istanbul, Tashkent, and several Russian cities soon. The number of flights to Kazakhstan will increase sometime from May 1 to early June.

Source: National information agency of Tajikistan