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TAJIKISTAN DAILY DIGEST
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From: Daniel Sershen (dsershen@eurasianet.org)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 13:03:30 EST
TAJIKISTAN'S MAN IN KABUL OUTLINES PRIORITIES. Farhod Mahkamov,
who was named last week as Tajikistan's new ambassador to Afghanistan
(see "RFE/RL Newsline," 4 January 2002), told Asia Plus-Blitz in an
interview on 9 January that his priorities will be establishing economic
cooperation between Tajikistan and Afghanistan; postconflict
rehabilitation; combating drug smuggling; and creating conditions for
border trade and the issuing of visas between the two countries. A 52-
year-old agronomist, Mahkamov also graduated from a higher military
college in the USSR, transferring in 1981 from the Soviet military to
the diplomatic service. He has a decade of experience as a diplomat in
Afghanistan, having served from 1981-1987 at the Soviet Embassy in Kabul
and from 1987-89 at the Soviet General Consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, and
is fluent in both Dari and Uzbek. LF
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