• Country/entity

  Tajikistan
  

• Region

  Europe and Eurasia
  

• Agreement name

  Protocol on the fundamental Principles for establishing Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan

• Date

  17 Aug 1995

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ( Tajikistani Civil War (1992 - 1997) )

• Stage

  Pre-negotiation/process

• Conflict nature

  Government

• Peace process

  Tajikistan peace process

• Parties

  (Signed) E. RAKHMONOV, President of the Republic of Tajikistan
  
  (Signed) A. NURI, Leader of the Tajik opposition

• Third parties

  Page 3, Article 5, The texts of this Protocol, which were signed by Mr. Rakhmonov, thePresident of the Republic of Tajikistan, and Mr. Nuri, the leader of the Tajikopposition, were exchanged on 17 August 1995, through the intermediary of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ramiro Píriz-Ballón.

• Description

  Government reaffirms committments to refrain from acting counter to agreement. Tajik opposition undertakes exclusively peaceful means. Both agree to future negotiations to aim at a series of protocols on: political problems; military problems; repatriation and reintegration; verification; guarantees for implementation; donors’ conference.

• Agreement document

  TJ_950817_ProtocolFundamentalPrinciplesforEstablishingPeace.pdf | Download PDF

Groups

Gender

State definition

Governance

Power sharing

Human rights and equality

Rights related issues

Rights institutions

Justice sector reform

Socio-economic reconstruction

Land, property and environment

Security sector

Transitional justice

Implementation

Protocol on the fundamental principles for establishing peace and national accord in Tajikistan

The President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Emomali Rakhmonov, and the leader of the Tajik opposition, Abdullo Nuri, strongly determined to ensure observance of the highest interests of the Tajik people, affirm that dialogue and cooperation are the essential ways to achieve stable peace in the country.

To this end, the Government undertakes to refrain from carrying out any acts that run counter to the provisions of the protocols being concluded and from adopting such laws or measures which may be incompatible with these protocols.

The Tajik opposition, for its part, undertakes to wage a political struggle by exclusively peaceful means in accordance with the laws in force in the Republic of Tajikistan and in conformity with the conditions and guarantees laid down in a general agreement on the establishment of peace and national accord in the country.

In this connection, the parties have agreed:

1. To conduct, beginning on 18 September 1995, a continual round of negotiations aimed at concluding, at the earliest possible date, a general

agreement on the establishment of peace and national accord in Tajikistan.

The venue for the negotiations shall be agreed upon by the parties through the mediation of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General.

2. The general agreement referred to shall consist of separate protocols on the following groups of problems:

(a) Political problems, including a consultative forum of the peoples of Tajikistan, the functioning of all political parties and political movements and

the participation of their representatives in the power structures, as well as the deepening of the democratization process in Tajik society;

(b) Military problems, including reforms of the governmental power structures, and the disbandment, disarmament and reintegration of the

opposition’s armed formations into the Government’s armed forces or Tajikistan’s civilian sector, in accordance with a timetable to be agreed upon at subsequent negotiations;

(c) The voluntary, safe and dignified repatriation and reintegration of refugees, including legal, economic and social guarantees for their protection;

(d) A commission to monitor and verify compliance by the parties with the general agreement;

(e) Guarantees for implementing the general agreement, including a possible role to be played by the United Nations, States and international

organizations acting as observers at inter-Tajik negotiations;

(f) A donors’ conference for financing the programmes to reintegrate refugees, displaced persons and persons demobilized during the national

reconciliation process, and also for providing necessary assistance in restoring the national economy, which has been destroyed by the civil war.

3. The protocols on these groups of problems shall be integral parts of the general agreement, and this document shall be incorporated into it as the first protocol.

4. Acting in the spirit of this Protocol and with a view to creating the necessary conditions for conducting further negotiations, the parties have

agreed to extend the period of validity of the Agreement on a Temporary Cease-Fire and the Cessation of Other Hostilities on the Tajik-Afghan Border and within the Country for the next six months until 26 February 1996.

5. The texts of this Protocol, which were signed by Mr. Rakhmonov, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, and Mr. Nuri, the leader of the Tajik

opposition, were exchanged on 17 August 1995, through the intermediary of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ramiro Píriz-Ballón.

(Signed) E. RAKHMONOV President of the Republic of Tajikistan

(Signed) A. NURI Leader of the Tajik opposition