DUSHANBE, November 21, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- The report recently released by some media sources that servicemen of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan and members of their families possess the right of inviolability is not exactly right, Lieutenant-Colonel Faridoun Mahmadaliyev, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, told Asia-Plus in an interview Wednesday afternoon.

“Under the agreement on the conditions of Russian military base’s stay in Tajikistan that was signed in Dushanbe in early October, servicemen of the Russian military base and members of their families possess the right of inviolability only on the territory of the base,” said the spokesman, “If they commit any infringement on the territories belonging to the Russian base, they will not be subject to Tajikistan’s laws and legal proceedings; they will be brought to justice under Russia’s laws.”

He further stressed that if servicemen of the Russian military base or members of their families committed any infringement outside the base compound, they would be subject to Tajik laws.