Abdulmajid Salimovich Dostiev ( tg, Абдулмаҷид Достиев, russian: Абдулмаджид Салимович Достиев; born 1946) is a

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

politician and diplomat.

Biography

Born in Bokhtar District in 1946, Dostiev served in the

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from 1966 until 1968 before pursuing a career in

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

. Dostiev worked on a

kolkhoz A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz., a contraction of советское хозяйство, soviet ownership or ...

(communal farm) and went on to study

entomology Entomology () is the science, scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such ...

at the

Agricultural University of Tajikistan Tajik Agrarian University 'S. Shotemur' (TAU) (russian: Таджикский аграрный университет им. Ш. Шотемура; tg, Донишгоҳи аграрии Тоҷикистон ба номи Ш. Шотемур) is a uni ...

, graduating in 1974. In 1977 he became the chief agronomist at the

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Department of Agriculture, and in 1980 he became head of that department. In 1992, as the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

collapsed, Dostiev joined the Sitodi Melli armed militia of the

Popular Front A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault". More generally, it is "a coalition ...

, becoming secretary of the regional executive committee, and in November of that year was appointed to the Tajik

Supreme Soviet The Supreme Soviet (russian: Верховный Совет, Verkhovny Sovet, Supreme Council) was the common name for the legislative bodies (parliaments) of the Soviet socialist republics (SSR) in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ...

as first deputy. The next year he founded the People's Party of Tajikistan (now the

People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan The People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT; tg, Ҳизби халқии демократии Тоҷикистон, script=Latn, italic=no, Hizbi xalqii demokratii Tojikiston; russian: Народная демократическая па� ...

), serving as chair until 1998. In 1995 he was elected to the Supreme Assembly (''Majlisi Oli''), and in 1996 he was appointed deputy chair of the assembly, a position he held for four years. He also served as deputy of the Commission for

National Reconciliation National Reconciliation is the term used for establishment of so-called 'national unity' in countries beset with political problems. In Afghanistan the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan government under Babrak Karmal issued a ten-point rec ...

in 1997. In 2000, he was elected to the assembly's lower chamber, where he served as deputy parliamentary chair. Since December 2006, he has been the

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

of the

Republic of Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centra ...

to the

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dostiev, Abdulmajid People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan politicians 1946 births Living people People from Khatlon Region Ambassadors of Tajikistan to Russia Ambassadors of Tajikistan to Ukraine