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Internally Displaced Persons: General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan

Implementations

Internally Displaced Persons – 1997

The UNHCR reported an estimated 520,000 IDPs in Tajikistan in 1993. This number was reported as having shrunk to 25,285 by 1996.¹ The Protocol on Refugees had established a timeline of 12 to 18 months for the return of IDPs and refugees and called for the reactivation of the Joint Commission on Refugees.²

«2002 UNHCR Statistical Yearbook- Tajikistan,» UNHCR, 2004, accessed August 7, 2012, http://www.unhcr.org/414ad5ae7.html.
«UN Security Council extends mandate of Tajikistan Observer Mission for three months, to 15 Sept,» M2 PRESSWIRE, June 13, 1997.

Internally Displaced Persons – 1998

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees continues assistance to IDPs and refugees in 1998.³

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

Internally Displaced Persons – 1999

From January to November of 1999, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had assisted in the repatriation of 4,119 Tajik refugees. UNHCR did not report on the number of IDPs in Tajikistan.⁴

«Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation in Tajikistan,» United Nations (S/1999/1127), November 4, 1999.

Internally Displaced Persons – 2000

By February 2000, most IDPs were reportedly resettled.⁵

Chronology,» in Politics of Compromise: the Tajikistan Peace Process, eds. K. Abdullaev and C. Barnes (London: Conciliation Resources, 2001), Accord 10: 82-87.