DUSHANBE, January 6, 2016, Asia-Plus – This year, the main events dedicated to the National Unity Day of Tajikistan will take place in Khorog, the capital of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).

The government has ordered the GBAO regional administration and relevant ministries and agencies to take measures in order to organize the events at the proper level, Ms. Niloufar Aslmashoyeva, a spokesperson of the GBAO regional administration, told Asia-Plus in an interview.

This year is the 19th anniversary of the National Unity Day of Tajikistan.  On June 27, 1997, the confronting sides signed in Moscow the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan.  For the purposes of achieving peace and national accord in Tajikistan and overcoming the consequences of the civil war, inter-Tajik talks on national reconciliation were conducted from April 1994 to 1997 under the auspices of the United Nations.

Protocols that were agreed and signed in the course of eight rounds of talks between delegations of the Government of Tajikistan and the United Tajik Opposition (UTO), six meetings between the President of Tajikistan and the UTO leader, and also three rounds of consultations between the delegations of the sides in Almaty, Ashgabat, Bishkek, Islamabad, Kabul, Mashhad (Iran), Moscow, Tehran and Khusdeh (Afghanistan) constituted the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan.