Executive Branch Reform: General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan

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Executive Branch Reform: General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan

Implementations

Executive Branch Reform – 1997

Executive branch reform, as specified in the accord, amounted to a 30 percent quota for UTO leaders. The government reportedly resisted appointing UTO leaders to posts in the executive branch early on.1

  1. Grant R. Smith, «Tajikistan: The Rocky Road to Peace,» Central Asian Survey 18, no. 2 (1999):243-251.

Executive Branch Reform – 1998

In February 1998 several UTO members were appointed at the cabinet level. On 27 February 1998, Mr. Akbar Turajonzodah, deputy leader of UTO, was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister.2 In October 1998, Zokir Vaziorv was appointed Deputy Prime Minister.3

  1. «Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation in Tajikistan,» United Nations (S/1998/374), May 6, 1999.
  2. «Report of the Secretary General on the Situation in Tajikistan,» United Nations (S/1998/1029), November 3, 1998.

Executive Branch Reform – 1999

In May 1999, it was reported that the government had not appointed any of the 13 pending nominees for high-level posts.4

  1. «Report of the Secretary General on the Situation in Tajikistan,» United Nations (S/1999/124), February 8, 1999.

Executive Branch Reform – 2000

No new UTO appointments were made in 2000. It was reported that three prominent UTO members were dismissed from the government in 2000 and 2001.5

  1. Sumie Nakaya, «Aid and Transition From a War Economy to an Oligarchy in Post-war Tajikistan,» Central Asian Survey 28, no. 3 (2009): 259-273.

Executive Branch Reform – 2001

No new UTO appointments were made in 2001. At least one prominent UTO member was dismissed from the government in 2001.6

  1. Ibid.

Executive Branch Reform – 2002

No developments observed this year.

Executive Branch Reform – 2003

No developments observed this year.

Executive Branch Reform – 2004

No developments observed this year.

Executive Branch Reform – 2005

No developments observed this year.

Executive Branch Reform – 2006

The last remaining member of the UTO in the executive branch (Emergency Situation Minister Mirzo Zioyev) was dismissed in 2006.1 According to Nakaya (2009), the 30% quota for UTO members in senior government posts was intended to be permanent, was not fully reached, and was dismantled within several years. Similarly, Freedom House reported that «important provisions of the 1997 peace accord remained unimplemented, with demobilization of opposition factions incomplete and the government failing to meet a 30 percent quota for UTO members in senior government posts».7

  1. Ibid.
  2. «Tajikistan,» Freedom House, accessed June 29, 2012, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2011/tajikistan#.VLP6ltLF_-t.