DUSHANBE, April 15, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik consuls general to Istanbul (Turkey) and Almaty (Kazakhstan) have been appointed.

According to the Tajik MFA information department, Yatimsho Musofirov, formerly head of the MFA consular directorate, was appointed Tajikistan’s Consul General to Istanbul.

Sharifkhon Qalandarov, who had previously served as deputy head of the MFA personnel department, was appointed Tajikistan’s Consul General to Almaty.

We will recall that this year, Tajikistan has opened its second consulate general in the Russian Federation.  The second Consulate General was opened in Ufa, the capital of Russia’s Bashkortostan Republic.  Tajikistan’s Consulate General was established in Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of Russia’s Sverdlovsk Oblast on June 15, 2009.

Tajikistan now has three consulates in the Afghan cities of Kunduz, Mazar-i Sharif and Fayzabad, five consulates general in Russia (Ufa and Yekaterinburg), the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Kazakhstan (Almaty) and Turkey (Istanbul).