Tajik president's daughter appointed first deputy FM - source
DUSHANBE. May 15 (Interfax) - Ozoda Rahmon, daughter of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, has been appointed as the First Deputy Foreign Minister, a senior source from the Tajik government told Interfax on Thursday.
Ozoda Rahmon had been a Tajik Deputy Foreign Minister since September 2009. Earlier she headed the ministry's consular department.
Jamoliddin Nuraliev, husband of Ozoda Rahmon, has been a First Deputy Finance Minister for a long time.
Another relative of Emomali Rahmon, husband of his daughter Parvina, Ashraf Gulov will head the consular service of the Tajik Embassy in Moscow, where the Tajik president had replaced the ambassador.
Previously Gulov was the First Secretary of the Tajik Embassy in Brussels.
"Bearing in mind the wide scope of work - the consulate in Moscow is considered to be the most challenging amongst our missions abroad - the appointment of such a young and energetic diplomat with work experience and potential was the correct decision to make," spokesman for the Tajik Embassy in Russia Muhammad Egamzod told reporters.
More than a million Tajik citizens are working in Russia.
The eldest son of the Tajik president, Rustam Emomali, headed the Tajik Customs Service late last year. Sirojiddin Gulmurodov, the president's nephew, the son of his sister, was earlier appointed as head of the tax service in the Khatlon region, the most densely populated region of Tajikistan.
The Tajik president has nine children - two sons and seven daughters.