President Saparmurat Niyazov has signed decrees granting Turkmen citizenship to 13,245 people, mainly former Tajik citizens who fled Tajikistan during that country\'s 1992-97 civil war. The report noted that most are ethnic Turkmen. Others covered by the decrees include residents of territory recently returned to Turkmenistan from Uzbekistan. Niyazov also signed resolutions granting residence permits to 3,053 displaced persons, most of them former citizens of Tajikistan. (turkmenistan.ru)