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| 15 March 2010, 17:20
| CA-NEWS (CA) - In March, it has been eight months as the government of Turkmenistan has banned exit of 165 students, who previously studied at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA). According to “Chronicles of Turkmenistan”, for those who have tried everything possible to go to university, but remained in the list of exit banned, the only hope is expected arrival of UN Secretary General in Turkmenistan.
In February this year, before the arrival government delegation from the US in Ashgabat, the Turkmen authorities have released about 60 students to study in Bulgaria. All of them are TASP Fellows program, sponsored by the US State Department. About a hundred former students are scholarship holders of the Open Society Institute (OSI), CAEF, scholarships in the name of Martin Luther King, as well as those who self-paid education in AUCA and stayed home. They are denied the right not only to study in foreign universities, but in general the right to leave Turkmenistan.
It became known that Turkmen Ministry of Education the other day going to what to do with the students of OSI program. Perhaps the authorities would release them. Previously, the students were told to fill out some forms indicating all personal data and all the relatives to the third degree. However, it is not known where to send these guys, as Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where the students were moved from AUCA, refused to except Turkmen students from the middle of semester.
At the same time, some remaining in Turkmenistan students doubted that they will be released at least somewhere. They believe the authorities are afraid that the students left the country to return to AUCA in Bishkek.
“I will not go to St. Petersburg at my own expense, to live there, and eat, because no one will pay a stipend to me until the new academic year,” said one of the students of OSI program.
Restricted to leave students are eagerly awaiting the arrival of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Turkmenistan. They are in the hope that the authorities will finally release them, so that this situation does not overshadow the visit of such a high person. Perhaps the forthcoming visit of General Secretary explains the sudden bustle of officials of the Ministry of Education.
Last week in New York, the staff of the UN Secretary General's Office, received the documents prepared by TIHR, including information about exit banned students. Secretary General is going to visit Turkmenistan in early April.
“We look forward to the discretion of our authorities on this issue and the authority of the UN. But if the arrival of Ban Ki-moon does not help, then this is the end,” said one of the exit banned of students.
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