Tajikistan

Tajikistan will not meet its current Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) Article 5 clearance deadline and in October 2025, at a very late stage, it requested a further seven-year extension to 2032. Tajikistan informally presented its request at the Intersessional Meetings in June 2025 and formally submitted the request only in mid-October 2025. There was progress in border relations with Uzbekistan and discussions on border delineation, a necessary step towards securing access to all areas still requiring survey, with protocols on the issue signed by both States first in May and then in August 2024. In March 2025, a trilateral agreement, dubbed the Khujand Declaration, was also signed between Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, demarcating the tri-state border.

Tajikistan had planned to complete all necessary survey in order to establish a baseline of contamination by the end of 2025, having previously committed to doing so by end of 2023. However, Tajikistan now plans to complete survey/re-survey of 44 CHAs in the Central Region and the Tajik-Afghan border region by the end of 2027. Previously unrecorded areas of contamination continued to be found. Overall land release in Tajikistan increased slightly in 2024 compared to 2023,
but clearance remained almost the same.

• The Tajikistan National Mine Action Centre (TNMAC) should continue to prioritise accelerated survey to reach a clear national baseline estimate of mined area.

• Tajikistan should explore all possible ways to increase national demining capacity to the levels needed to fulfil its Article 5 commitments as soon as possible, and within its proposed seven-year extension period.

• Tajikistan should continue working with key stakeholders to address shortfalls in funding.

Click here to download the "Clearing the Mines 2025" report for Tajikistan.