Tajikistan returned more than 1,000 Tajik citizens - women, children and students - to their home country from abroad to avoid their recruitment by terrorist organizations. President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon said this at the opening of a high-level conference on international and regional cooperation in the fight against terrorism, which started in Dushanbe on Tuesday.
"As a result of specific measures taken by the government of Tajikistan, more than 230 citizens of the country, mostly women and children, as well as more than 1,000 students <...> were returned to avoid their recruitment by terrorist and extremist organizations," the president said. Those individuals are now being rehabilitated, and Tajikistan's development partners are helping them with those tasks, he said.
The conference in Dushanbe was co-organised by the UN Office for Counter-Terrorism, the government of Tajikistan, the Regional centre for preventive diplomacy for Central Asia, the OSCE and the EU.
It is expected to bring together ministers, representatives of UN member states, UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy structures, international and regional organizations, civil society institutions and border security experts. The conference is expected to result in the adoption of the Dushanbe Declaration on border security and management to combat terrorism and prevent the movement of terrorists.
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Based on materials from TASS