In recent years, Tajikistan, as Armenia and Georgia, has benefited from considerable interna
tional humanitarian assistance, out of which the EU has provided a significant share, in particular through ECHO. However, technical assistance through TACIS and structural
assistance already granted have been delayed for security reasons while, in November 1997, the Council postponed a formal decision on the exceptional financial assistance in favour of Tajikistan, pending implementation by the country of an IMF supported macroeconomic stabili
...[+++]sation and structural reform programme.