Azerbaijan, Baku, November 24 / Trend /
Russia's Chief State Sanitary Inspector Gennady Onishenko claims a lot of migrants arriving from Tajikistan to the Russian Federation are ill with tuberculosis or HIV-infected.
As reported by Onishenko earlier, 188 Tajik citizens with such dangerous diseases as the HIV, tuberculosis, and syphilis have entered Russia since November 2010. According to Russian legal provisions, in case of identification of diseases above and some other diseases at foreign citizens, such citizens must be deported from Russia. Practically every fifth citizen deported for this reason from Russia in 2010 was a resident of Tajikistan, he reported then.
"These are our figures (as concerning diseases). I mean only those diseased persons whom we identified," Onishenko told journalists in Moscow on Thursday.
Besides, he criticized the work of Russia's Embassy to Tajikistan. According to certain news reports, Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Yury Popov on Wednesday questioned Russian Consumer Supervision Department's data on HIV-infected people and stated that the data had been published "for effect". The Ambassador said this statement of Onishenko must be left on his conscience. "We extremely unsatisfactorily assess the activity of this structure (the Embassy). I can say that we analyze those sayings and undoubtedly we will make a reply. Such sort of statements concerning the state bodies of the Russian Federation is at least irrelevant," Onishenko said.
He reminded that the Russian Embassy to Tajikistan kept a similar position when Russia faced the import of wild poliomyelitis virus from Tajikistan in May 2010.