Sherali Khayrulloyev

Sherali Khayrulloyevich Khayrulloyev (Tajik: Шералӣ Хайруллоевич Хайруллоев) is a retired Tajikistani general and politician. He was the Minister of Defense of Tajikistan from 1995 to 2013.[1][2]

Sherali Khayrulloyev
Шералӣ Хайруллоев
Minister of Defense
In office
April 7, 1995 – November 20, 2013
PresidentEmomali Rahmon
Preceded byAlexander Shishlyannikov
Succeeded bySherali Mirzo
Personal details
Born (1949-11-08) 8 November 1949
Hamadoni, Danghara District, Kulob Oblast, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union
 Tajikistan
Branch/serviceTajik National Army
Years of service1970-2019
RankColonel General (1999)

Early life

He was born in November 1949 in the village of Hamadoni, in the Danghara District of the Kulob Oblast. He is Tajik by ethnicity. He graduated from high school in 1966. In 1970, he graduated from the Department of Economics, Tajik National University.

Military service
Khayrulloyev (4th from right) talks with U.S Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2nd from right) after he arrived in Dushanbe on 26 July 2005.

He joined the Soviet Army in 1970, and served as a brigade battalion accountancy director. He graduated from the Moscow Finance Institute in order in training for this role. From 1977 to 1988, he worked in the Interior Ministry of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. While in the Soviet Internal Troops, he served in the village of Nizhnyaya Poyma in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and in the city of Kyzyl (capital of the Tuva Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). He also served in the Department of Correctional Labor Institutions of the MVD. From 1988 to 1995, he served as Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs Tajikistan.

During the Tajik Civil War that began in 1992, he remained loyal to the central government, organizing operations against rebel groups.

Defence Minister

Khayrulloyev became the minister of defense on 7 April 1995. It was previously expected that his predecessor, Colonel Shishlyannikov, would temporary and would eventually be replaced by Colonel Ramazon Radjabov, rather than Khayrulloyev.[3] He was reappointed by decree on 1 December 2006 after the 2006 Tajik presidential election.

In 2010, during a dinner meeting with the departing Richard E. Hoagland, Khayrulloyev allegedly questioned NATO's attempts to bring Georgia into the alliance, saying that "Even the Warsaw Pact didn't subsume losers!" also saying that the United States "indulges the adolescent" referring to President Mikhail Saakashvili. He also added that "Without Abhkazia and South Ossetia, Georgia has no hope of existing."[4] He resigned in 2013 due to health issues.[5][6][7]

Advisor to the President (2014-present)

On 25 January 2014, the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon appointed him the Advisor to the President on National Security issues.[8] In July 2013, he led the Tajik working group during talks with representatives of the State Border Guard Service of Kyrgyzstan (led at the time by Rayimberdi Duishenbiev) after a Tajik border guard killed a resident of the Kyrgyz city of Isfara.[9] In March 2019, Khayrulloyev retired from military service.[10]

Personal life

Khayrulloyev is married, and has 2 children. His son Tokhir is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Tajik military.[11] His brother Mirale Khayrulloyev was the former head of the Khatlon administration of the Agency for Drug Control.[12]

Personal awards
  • Star of the President of Tajikistan
  • Order of Ismoili Somoni
  • Jubilee Medal "20th anniversary of the State Independence of Tajikistan"
  • Honored Worker of Tajikistan

References
  1. "China, Tajikistan pledge further military cooperation". xinhuanet.com. 2012-06-06. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
  2. "Шерали Хайруллоев с 1995 года и вплоть до 2013 года занимал должность министра обороны Таджикистана и был освобожден от занимаемого поста в связи с выходом на пенсию". rus.ozodi.org. 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  3. https://asiaplustj.info/ru/news/tajikistan/society/20170615/on-ne-vernulsya-iz-boya
  4. https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/73307
  5. Kucera, Joshua (2013-11-22). "Tajikistan's Long-Serving Defense Minister Replaced". EurasiaNet. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
  6. http://www.centrasia.ru/person2.php?st=1013881232
  7. https://www.news.tj/ru/node/177423
  8. "Фармони Президенти Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон дар бораи Ёрдамчии Президенти Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон оид ба масъалаҳои амнияти миллӣ таъин намудани Хайруллоев Ш. | Президенти Тоҷикистон - President of Tajikistan - Президент Таджикистана - رئيس جمهورية تاجيكستان". www.president.tj. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  9. https://m.sputnik-tj.com/defense_safety/20150708/1015938152.html?mobile_return=no
  10. https://news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/power/20190304/president-shakes-up-officials
  11. "ХАЙРУЛЛОЕВ Тохир | ЦентрАзия". centrasia.org. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  12. "Новая должность брата Шерали Хайруллоева". rus.ozodi.org. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
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