Tadschikistan
Aktuelle Einsätze
OSCE Office in Tajikistan
(OSCE Other Field Activities)
Beginn: 10/02
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Tajikistan creating competing ombudsman offices (08.09.2009)
(Quelle: RFE, RL / International)
Rahmatullo Zoirov, the chief of Tajikistan's Social Democratic Party and head of the Consortium of Legal Consultants nongovernmental organization, says 50 public ombudsman offices will be established by the end of the year, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. … The 50 people chosen will receive training under a program sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) through the end of the year.
Tajikistan says it smashes gang linked to Taliban (05.08.2009)
(Quelle: Reuters AlertNet / International)
Tajikistan said on Wednesday its security forces had destroyed "an armed terrorist gang" with links to Afghanistan's Taliban, after a string of gunbattles near the Afghan border. The Central Asian state first reported clashes with the militants in early July when they attacked a police checkpoint. It said it had since killed 11 militants and detained 30 men.
Taming Tajikistan’s eastern valleys (28.07.2009)
(Quelle: ISN Security Watch / Switzerland)
Nearly two weeks after a former rebel commander was killed in a firefight, officials say stability is returning to the eastern valleys of Tajikistan and any remaining armed militants are being hunted down. Analysts say that to prevent the ongoing sweep from creating a backlash among local communities, the security forces will need to tread lightly and avoid needlessly harassing villagers.
Tajiks seek de-mining help from EU visitors (02.06.2009)
(Quelle: RFE/RL / International)
Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi told RFE/RL's Tajik Service that he asked a visiting EU delegation for assistance in efforts to demine areas on the Uzbek-Tajik border. The land mines at issue were reportedly laid by Uzbek security forces last decade to prevent violence from spreading across the border during Tajikistan's civil war and subsequently to keep fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) from escaping across the Tajik border.
Are Islamic militants trying to make a comeback in Central Asia? (26.05.2009)
(Quelle: EurasiaNet / USA)
Officials in Tajikistan are adamantly denying a large-scale government security operation in the eastern Rasht Valley has anything to do with reports that a notorious Islamic militant commander has returned to the area from Pakistan. Authorities are sticking with the story that the beefed up security presence in the mountainous region is connected with a government anti-drug offensive.
Pentagon looks to become engine for economic stabilization in Tajikistan (16.03.2009)
(Quelle: EurasiaNet / USA)
A Pentagon-funded aid program to Tajikistan will aim to promote economic development in some of the most neglected parts of the country over the next three years, in an attempt to "prevent the rise of another Afghanistan." The program, called Tajikistan Stability Enhancement Program, will spend $7.1 million over the three-year span to help small communities work to identify development needs like road repairs, agricultural equipment or aid to small businesses, and then help to fund the projects.
Tajikistan: on the road to failure – new ICG report (12.02.2009)
(Quelle: International Crisis Group / USA)
Far from being a bulwark against the spread of violence from Afghanistan, Tajikistan is looking increasingly like its southern neighbour – a weak state that is suffering from a failure of leadership. “Tajikistan: On the Road to Failure“, the latest report from the International Crisis Group, says that without sweeping reforms to address food security, energy infrastructure and corruption, President Rakhmon’s regime is in danger of collapse.
Record drug seizure carried out by UN-trained team in Tajikistan (26.12.2008)
(Quelle: UN News / International)
Tajik officials trained by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have seized some 560 kilogrammes of hashish and heroin in the single biggest bust in the Central Asian nation’s his-tory.