DUSHANBE, June 24, 2013, Asia-Plus  -- Youth race dedicated to the 16th anniversary to the National Unity Day of Tajikistan is scheduled to take place from June 29-30.

Initiated by the Cultural Center Arzhang, Dushanbe weekly Vecherny Dushanbe and the youth organization of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Sozandagoni Vatan (Homeland Builders), the race is expected to start in Dushanbe on June 29 and end in Khujand, the capital of Sughd province on June 30.

“130 young drivers from all regions of the country will participate in the race,” Sozandagoni Vatan head Adham Mirasidov told Asia-Plus in an interview.

According to him the race participants will also take part in a conference on a role of social networks in life of youth in Tajikistan and ways of efficient use of them.

This year is the 16th anniversary of the National Unity Day of Tajikistan.  Sixteen years ago, on June 27, 1997, the confronting sides signed in Moscow the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan.  For the purposes of achieving peace and national accord in Tajikistan and overcoming the consequences of the civil war, inter-Tajik talks on national reconciliation were conducted from April 1994 to 1997 under the auspices of the United Nations.

Protocols that were agreed and signed in the course of eight rounds of talks between delegations of the Government of Tajikistan and the United Tajik Opposition (UTO), six meetings between the President of Tajikistan and the UTO leader, and also three rounds of consultations between the delegations of the sides in Almaty, Ashgabat, Bishkek, Islamabad, Kabul, Mashhad (Iran), Moscow, Tehran and Khusdeh (Afghanistan) constituted the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan.