US embassy cable - 05DUSHANBE1858

UNCLAS DUSHANBE 001858 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
EUR/ACE 
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E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL, PGOV, TI, UNGA 
SUBJECT: SIRODJIDDIN ASLOV APPOINTED TO THE UNITED NATIONS 
 
1. (SBU)  Sirodjiddin Mukhriddinovich Aslov has been named as 
Tajikistan's new Permanent Representative to the United Nations. 
 For the last two years Alsov has been Deputy Foreign Minister 
and a useful and active interlocutor for the Embassy. 
 
2. (SBU)  The following are notes from his official biography 
and recent meetings with DCM. 
 
3. (SBU)  Aslov was born on February 17, 1964 in Kangurt Village 
of Sovet (Temurmalik) District of Khatlon Region.  In 1986 he 
graduated with Honor from Odessa Hydrometereology Institute and 
his major was "Agrometereology".  In 2001 he graduated from 
Tashkent State Economic University the Faculty to International 
Economic Relations.  He has finished postgraduate study of 
Hydrometcenter of USSR in Moscow. 
 
4. (SBU)  Aslov started his career in 1986 at Tajikistan 
Hydrometcenter as an Engineer-Agrometereology and then worked as 
a Chief of Scientific-Technical Development and Standards at the 
Ministry of Environment Protection of the Republic of 
Tajikistan, Deputy Chief, Department of Hydrometereology and 
Control of Environment. 
 
5. (SBU)  In 1996 he was appointed the Plenipotentiary 
Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan at the Executive 
Committee of the International Aral See Foundation (IASF).  He 
worked at this position till 2002 and at the same time he was 
heading different regional projects in Central Asia. 
In June 2002 he was appointed the Chairman of Executive 
Committee of Aral Sea Foundation. 
 
6. (SBU)  In February 2004 he was appointed the First Deputy 
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan and at 
the same time worked as the Chairman of IASF.  He is the author 
a dozen scientific articles on the issues related to monitoring 
and management of water resources, the flooding dangers posed by 
Lake Sarez, ecological problems, hydrometereology and others. 
Aslov is a national Coordinator of the Republic of Tajikistan at 
the SCO and has the rank of First Class Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary Minister. 
 
7. (SBU)  As Deputy Minister he has been involved in a wide 
range of issues and is often a decision-maker on our bilateral 
issues.  His English level is fairly basic, about a 2 according 
to FSI standards.  He is very interested in improving his 
language skills and the Embassy has provided him with some basic 
English materials.  He has been to several American cities and 
speaks warmly of the more rural states like Nebraska.  Aslov has 
yet to be won over by New York because of its immensity, 
traffic, noise and pollution.  Aslov is believed to be related 
to President Rahmonov but we do not know the exact connection. 
Aslov said, and other MFA counterparts confirm, that the Foreign 
Minister is in no hurry to replace him, and may leave the post 
vacant for several months.  For the Embassy, we may have to 
either go to Ismat Nasredinov, Chief of the North American Desk, 
or the Minister himself to resolve problems.   Sirojdin Aslov is 
41, married with four kids.  He will go to Post first and his 
family will follow later in December or January. 
HOAGLAND 
 
 
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