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Increasing security through sustainable development
By Giorgio Fiacconi
BISHKEK (TCA) - Kyrgyzstan has discovered it's new vocation as a host country for international conferences. When on 13 and 14 December, Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan hosted the International conference organized by OSCE and the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UN ODCCP) doubts were cast on the ability of the country to organize such a conference. Read more

Tajikistan

December 22, 2001 [ 17:28 ]

Tajikistan: Focus on the Winter Energy Crisis

DUSHANBE. Many Tajiks will again have to fend for themselves this winter as temperatures plummet and the state remains unable to meet domestic heating needs through gas and coal. Following a post-Soviet economic decline, and a five-year civil war that ended in 1997, interruptions in winter heating have become the norm for Tajiks throughout the country. Read more

Tajikistan	December 20, 2001 [ 19:53 ]
Tajikistan Media Review 13-19.12 BISHKEK (TCA). American assistance for drought victims The US Ambassador to Tajikistan, Franklin Huddle, has given more than US $800,000 in seeds and fertilizers to help 24,000 Tajik families who are suffering from a severe drought. Read more

Tajikistan	December 20, 2001 [ 10:17 ]
Focus on the Winter Energy Crisis DUSHANBE. Many Tajiks will again have to fend for themselves this winter as temperatures plummet and the state remains unable to meet domestic heating needs through gas and coal. Read more

Tajikistan	December 13, 2001 [ 10:52 ]
Key Aid Crossing Point to Be Upgraded ISLAMABAD. Problems at the newly-opened crossing of Nigny Piandzh in Tajikistan - an important transit point for food aid into northern Afghanistan - would soon be resolved, a UN official told IRIN on Wednesday. Read more

Tajikistan	November 29, 2001 [ 14:35 ]
Tajikistan Media Review 23-28.11 TCA Combined report BISHKEK (TCA)- The Tajik Security Ministry seized more than 100 fake Afghan passports in Isfara, Soghd province. The fake passports were printed in Pakistan and delivered to Tajikistan for sale to illegal Afghan refugees staying in the country. Read more

Tajikistan	November 28, 2001 [ 14:27 ]
Afghan Refugees in Tajikistan Eager to Repatriate and Rebuild DUSHANBE. The teen-agers at a school for Afghan refugees have vague memories at best of the country they fled. But their teachers here have drilled into them the lesson they did not have time to learn firsthand: Afghanistan is home. Read more

Tajikistan	November 17, 2001 [ 19:15 ]
Tajikstan Gains Global Prominence, Yet Fights Regional Isolation By Konstantin Parshin NEW YORK. Despite gaining global prominence for its participation in the anti-terrorism coalition, Tajikistan is struggling to overcome regional isolation. Kazakhstan has severed rail traffic between Tajikistan and Russia, cutting Tajik migrant workers off from crucial sources of income. Read more

Tajikistan	November 15, 2001 [ 12:17 ]
Tajikistan Media Review BISHKEK. (TCA) - A meeting at the Tajik Ministry of Economy and Trade discussed the country`s economic results for the first nine months of 2001. Over this period, Tajikistan`s GDP rose by 12.1% and industrial output by 16% compared to the same period last year. Read more

Tajikistan

November 15, 2001 [ 11:03 ]

Plight of Piandzh River Displaced Continues

ISLAMABAD. Reports that thousands of Afghan internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the border with Tajikistan since last year had left the islands in the Piandzh river where they had been stranded had proved to be false, an official of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Tajikistan told IRIN on Wednesday. Read more

Tajikistan	November 14, 2001 [ 14:53 ]
Tajik Opposition Head Recalls Meeting with Taliban Leader DUSHANBE. Northern Alliance units entered Kabul on November 13 after Taliban troops abandoned their defensive positions in a strategic withdrawal to strongholds in southern Afghanistan. US officials portray the situation in the Afghan capital as "fluid." Read more

Tajikistan	November 13, 2001 [ 15:50 ]
Who Are the Northern Alliance? WASHINGTON. The dramatic advances by the Afghan Northern Alliance are a great boost for the US-led campaign against the Taleban but it may make the search for a stable post-Taleban government more difficult. Read more

Tajikistan	November 13, 2001 [ 14:25 ]
U.S. Fighter Jets to Be Based in Tajikistan WASHINGTON. The Pentagon, hoping to intensify pressure on the Taliban, has decided to put military aircraft at one or more airfields in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan on Afghanistan`s northern border, a senior defense official said today. Read more

Tajikistan

November 11, 2001 [ 17:38 ]

Turkey: President Ends Afghan Talks in Tajik Capital
By Jean-Christophe Peuch
PRAGUE. In a further attempt to boost his country`s profile in Afghanistan, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer held talks today with Northern Alliance leaders in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. Almost simultaneously, Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit announced in Ankara that 30 Turkish soldiers will head soon to Afghanistan as part of an international effort to fight terrorism. Read more

Tajikistan	November 9, 2001 [ 13:38 ]
Tajikistan Embraces Alternatives to War By Will Englund DUSHANBE. The Tajik people went at each other for five years in a civil war that killed 60,000, and then they came up for air and decided they would prefer not to create another Afghanistan. So the fighting stopped. Read more

Tajikistan	November 9, 2001 [ 13:34 ]
Red Cross Volunteer Aids Tajikistan Drought Victims By Mason Anderson DUAHANBE. As the nation continues to heal from the attacks of Sept. 11, youth groups have come together to assist victims in the United States and abroad. In Cincinnati, Ohio, American Red Cross volunteer Karthik Balasubramanian organized a fundraiser with all proceeds going either (nationally) to the victims Read more

Tajikistan	November 7, 2001 [ 22:58 ]
US Eyes Bases In Tajikistan By Raffi Khatchadourian NEW YORK. Tajik and US experts are evaluating the suitability of military facilities in Tajikistan for hosting American armed forces. The assessment mission could open the way for the conduct of US strategic offensive operations from Central Asian bases against targets in neighboring Afghanistan. Read more

Tajikistan	November 6, 2001 [ 12:11 ]
US Checks Tajikistan Bases; Al Qaeda Hides-Pentagon By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON. U.S. military teams are checking airfields in Tajikistan and other countries in the region to see if they could serve as bases for increasing air strikes in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Monday. Read more

Tajikistan	November 6, 2001 [ 11:55 ]
U.S. Eyes Additional Bases in Tajikistan By John J. Lumpkin WASHINGTON. A small group of American military personnel is in Tajikistan assessing the possibility of using at least three bases there to expand the U.S. bombing campaign and strengthen support for Afghan opposition forces, a Pentagon spokesman said today. Read more

Tajikistan	November 6, 2001 [ 10:26 ]
US Eyes Additional Bases in Tajikistan By John J. Lumpkin WASHINGTON. A small group of American military personnel is in Tajikistan assessing the possibility of using at least three bases there to expand the U.S. bombing campaign and strengthen support for Afghan opposition forces, a Pentagon spokesman said today. Read more

Tajikistan	November 4, 2001 [ 16:10 ]
Tajikistan Allows U.S. to Assess 3 Air Bases By Vernon Loeb and Susan B. Glasser DUSHANBE. The government of Tajikistan today authorized U.S. military engineers to immediately begin assessing conditions at three former Soviet air bases for possible use by U.S. warplanes bombing Afghanistan. Read more

Tajikistan	November 4, 2001 [ 15:57 ]
Tajikistan Likely to Offer U.S. Bases DUSHANBE. U.S. troops were poised to fly into Tajikistan after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Saturday reached a tentative agreement to use three air bases near the border with Afghanistan, NBC News has learned. In exchange, a senior U.S. defense official said, Tajikistan would receive aid worth tens of millions of dollars. Read more

Tajikistan	November 1, 2001 [ 12:57 ]
Tajikistan Media Review 25-31.10 BISHKEK. (TCA) According to the Drug Control Agency under the President of Tajikistan, the September terrorist acts in the United States and the US retaliatory operation have sped up drug delivery from Afghanistan Read more

Tajikistan	October 29, 2001 [ 09:27 ]
Tajikistan Struggles for Stability By Jim Heintz DANGHARA. The word came from a passer-by as the sun rose: Water was flowing in the pipe along the Danghara road for the first time in a week. Read more

Tajikistan

October 25, 2001 [ 11:24 ]

Tajikistan: Population Facing Serious Food Shortages, Malnutrition
By Jean-Christophe Peuch
DUSHANBE. On World Food Day last week (16 October), the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) called upon donor countries to provide urgent aid to the impoverished Central Asian state of Tajikistan, where the organization says nearly one-sixth of the population is facing the consequences of a two-year drought that is also affecting neighboring Afghanistan. Read more

Tajikistan	October 25, 2001 [ 08:43 ]
Population Facing Serious Food Shortages, Malnutrition By Jean-Christophe Peuch DUSHANBE. The United Nations says the Central Asian state of Tajikistan is facing serious food shortages for the second straight year, leaving 1 million people -- almost one-sixth of the population -- in need of food assistance. Read more

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