From 2 to 6 February 2026, the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), conducted on behalf of the Security Council Counter Terrorism Committee an assessment visit to the Republic of Tajikistan to follow up on the comprehensive visit, which took place in 2017. CTED conducts these visits to assess Member States’ counter-terrorism efforts, including progress made, remaining challenges, and priority areas for technical assistance needs, as well as to identify terrorism-related trends and challenges and good practices employed in the implementation of relevant Security Council resolutions. So far, CTED has visited all Member States in Central Asia with some States visited more than twice.
Assessment visits remain one of the key channels of the Counter Terrorism Committee to engage and conduct a constructive dialogue with Member States with a view to achieving effective and comprehensive implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions on counter-terrorism.
The visiting delegation was led by Mr. Ahmed Essmat Seif El-Dawla, CTED Chief of Section (Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East), and consisted of four CTED experts, as well as experts from the following United Nations bodies and international organizations: the Monitoring Team of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities (“Monitoring Team”); the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT); the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL); the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (EAG); the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); and the Anti-Terrorist Centre of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS-ATC). The visit enabled the delegation to assess progress made by Tajikistan in adopting measures to implement Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001), 1624 (2005), 2178 (2014), 2396 (2017), 2462 (2019), 2617 (2021) and other relevant resolutions on counter-terrorism.
During the visit to Tajikistan, the expert discussions focused on counter-terrorism legislation and criminal justice responses to terrorism; international cooperation in criminal matters; measures taken to counter the financing of terrorism; law enforcement; border management; aviation security; measures to counter violent extremism conducive to terrorism; and implementation of national integrated and comprehensive strategy on countering terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism. The human rights aspects of Tajikistan’s counter-terrorism measures and the role of women in countering terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism were also raised during the discussions.
The delegation also held meetings with the UN Resident Coordinator and the United Nations Country Team, experts from the OSCE programme office in Dushanbe and OSCE Border Management Staff College. The delegation held a separate meeting with Tajikistan’s civil society organizations and made an on-site visit to the Dushanbe International Airport.