Otakhon Latifi commemoration meeting to be held in Dushanbe on March 16
20:02, march 14, 2006Author: Nargis Hamroboyeva
, March 14, Asia-Plus - The Otakhon Latifi commemoration meeting will be held at the Tajik Cinematographers’
Union
in
Dushanbe
on March 16.
According to information from the Tajik Cinematographers’ Union, the meeting’s program includes presentation of a book entitled “Last Spring of Otakhon Latifi” and demonstration of several documentaries made by Otakhon Latifi himself and a video about life this known Tajik public figure and journalists.
Representatives from Tajik intelligentsia, media as well as relatives and friends of Otakhon Latifi have been invited to attend his commemoration meeting.
Information of Asia-Plus:
Otakhon Latifi was born at the northern town of
Panjakent
in 1936. In 1963, he graduated from the Journalist Faculty at
Leningrad
State
University
. Mr. Otakhon Latifi, who was that time Chairman of Commission for National Reconciliation’s (CNR) Legal Sub-Commission, was shot dead by an unidentified gunman outside his apartment in the center of
Dushanbe
on
September 22 1998
.
Prior to
Tajikistan
''s independence, Mr. Latifi had worked as correspondent and editor of "Pravda" newspaper in
Dushanbe
. He served as Deputy Prime Minister in the national reconciliation/coalition government in 1992. Having left the country during the civil war, he was the Chairman of the Coordinating Center of Tajiks in CIS countries based in
Moscow
for several years. Mr. Latifi returned to
Dushanbe
with other UTO leaders in September 1997. Mr. Latifi was a senior member of the United Tajik Opposition delegation during three years of inter-Tajik peace negotiations under the United Nations mediation. His immense contribution to the attainment of peace and national reconciliation in
Tajikistan
was recognized by both parties, the people of
Tajikistan
and the United Nations.
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