DUSHANBE, June 11, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Work on improvement of Khujand, the capital of Sughd province in the anticipation of celebrations to mark the 12th anniversary of Tajikistan’s National Unity Day, which is marked on June 27, is progressing.  We will recall that this year, the main celebrations to mark this event will be held in Khujand.

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, the First Deputy Minister of Culture, Mirali Dostiyev, said some 5,000 people, including professional artistes, students and schoolchildren, would participate in the theatrical show dedicated to the National Unity Day. Known artistes from Dushanbe will also join in that show, the deputy minister said.

Next year, the celebrations to mark the National Unity Day will be held in Gorno Badakhshan.

The General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan was signed in Moscow on June 27, 1997.

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.