TAJIK PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED.

Tajik president Imomali Rahmonov, United Opposition leader Saidabdullo Nuri, and the UN envoy for Tajikistan, Gerd-Dietrich Merrem, signed today in the Kremlin a General Agreement on Peace and National Accord. Attending the ceremony were Russian president Boris Yeltsin, officials of Iran and several countries involved as observers at the inter-Tajik talks, and UN undersecretary general for peacekeeping operations Bernard Mayet. There was no immediate word on the agreement’s specifics.

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