DUSHANBE, October 21, 2014, Asia-Plus — The Tajik capital Dushanbe has got a diploma of the 7th international contest for the urban best practices, organized among the CIS cities, “The City You Want to Live In.”
Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, says the Tajik capital has got the diploma for achievements in development of modern urban infrastructure and organization of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summits at the highest level.
Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev has been awarded the Medal of the International Assembly of Capitals and Major Cities of the CIS “For Contribution to Development of International Cooperation.”
The contest “The City You Want to Live In” has been initiated the International Assembly of Capitals and Major Cities of the CIS and is held by this Assembly in partnership with the Ministry for regional Development of Russia, the CIS Executive Committee and the All-Russia Council for Local Self-Governance.
Established in 1998 the International Assembly of Capitals and Major Cities of the CIS now reportedly includes 84 big cities.
The priority directions of the Assembly activities include solving problems of informational inter-city communication, exchange of goods, services and technologies, joint exhibitions and fairs holding, tourism development, cities social sphere development; financing schemes and strategic investors searching for the projects of inter-city importance as well as solving infrastructure problems: housing-communal reform, garbage processing and wastes utilization, energy supply, insuring security of residences and municipal property, operation of municipal transport and protection of city environment; sharing technology in construction, repair and renovation of residential buildings and roads, development of mortgage lending.
