Tajikistan

French presence

34 French nationals are registered (2025).

As a diplomatic presence post, the Embassy of France in Tajikistan only performs consular duties limited to assisting French nationals in difficulty. Other consular activities (civil status register, travel documents, elections) are carried out by the Embassy of France in Uzbekistan.

Visits

In November 2019, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, visited France. Ahead of this presidential visit, and as part of a tour of Central Asia, Minister of State Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne travelled to Dushanbe on 19 April 2019, where he was met by President Rahmon.

President Rahmon made another visit to Paris for the “Tajikistan: In the Land of Rivers of Gold” exhibition held at the Musée Guimet in the autumn of 2021, where he took part in the inauguration ceremony alongside the President of the French Republic.

In 2022, to commemorate 30 years of bilateral relations between France and Tajikistan, the Tajik Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sirojiddin Muhriddin, met in Paris with his counterpart, Catherine Colonna.

In 2023, the Tajik Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sirojiddin Muhriddin, took part in the One Planet - Polar Summit held in Paris from 8 to 10 November 2023.

In June 2024, the Special Envoy of the President of the French Republic for the One Water Summit, Barbara Pompili, took part in the third High-level International Conference on the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development” (2018-2028) held in Dushanbe.

In April 2025, Samantha Cazebonne, Senator representing French citizens living abroad, made a visit to Tajikistan, where she met with the Deputy Chairwoman of the lower house of Parliament and the Minister of Education.

President Rahmon attended the third United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (United Nations Ocean Conference) in Nice in June 2025, the only Central Asian Head of State to do so. He took part in the launch of the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences (2025-2034) alongside the President of the French Republic and the Director-General of UNESCO.

Cultural, scientific and technical cooperation

Our cultural and educational cooperation actions are carried out by the Embassy of France in Tajikistan and the Alliance Française in Khujand, which opened in 2022. A network of French civic service volunteers is also working in Tajik universities. University partnership agreements were signed in 2022 between the Tajik National University and INALCO, as well as between Aix-Marseille University and Khujand State University, with student exchange programmes currently under way in both directions.

The exhibition dedicated to showcasing Tajik archaeological heritage, inaugurated at the Musée Guimet on 13 October 2021, with President Rahmon and President Macron in attendance, gave new impetus to the cultural dimension of our cooperation. France and Tajikistan have close and long-standing ties in the field of archaeological research, via the French Archaeological Mission in Central Asia (MAFAC, a joint programme with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), created in 2015 and the fruit of a major French-Tajik collaboration project launched in 1984 at the Sarazm site. The Archaeological Mission in Southern Tajikistan is also conducting excavations at the Zol-i Zard site.