TAJIK CONCILIATION COMMISSION AGREES ON MUTUAL FORGIVENESS AND AMNESTY.

The Tajik government-opposition commission for national reconciliation completed yesterday in Moscow its inaugural session. It had convened on July 7. The commission elected United Opposition leader Saidabdullo Nuri as commission chairman and Dushanbe parliament vice-chairman Abdulmajid Dostiev as commission vice-chairman. The two men signed an Act of Mutual Forgiveness, envisaging the reciprocal release of all prisoners of war and detainees, and a draft amnesty bill to be submitted to the Dushanbe parliament. (Russian agencies, July 10)

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