Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin will arrive in Dushanbe next week to discuss cooperation.
According to the Tajik MFA information department, Karasin will arrive in Dushanbe on November 9 on a two-day visit.
Grigory Karasin is a career diplomat, a State Secretary, and a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
Karasin graduated from the Institute of Oriental Languages at Moscow State University in 1971, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.
From March 2000 to June 2005, Karasin was the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom, and returned to Moscow in June 2005 to take up the position of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; since October 2005 also a State Secretary. He holds both positions to this day.
Karasin is in charge for relations with the CIS nations and compatriots living abroad.
Karasin will be the sixth high-ranking Russian state officials to visit Tajikistan this year.
Meanwhile, some local experts consider that there are no insoluble problems in bilateral relations between Tajikistan and the Russian Federation.
“There are no insoluble problems in relations between Tajikistan and Russia, especially in the fields of international policy, regional cooperation and security,” Tajik expert Abdullo Habibov noted.
If any disputable issues or misunderstanding arise, they are solved quickly because there is the main thing in relations between Dushanbe and Moscow – confidence, Habibov stressed.
According to him, Tajikistan does not enough intense activity for expansion of cooperation with Russia. “Tajikistan ought to actively cooperate not only with Moscow but also with other regions of Russia,” the expert added.
Meanwhile, another Tajik expert, speaking on the basis of anonymity, noted that there were two main obstacles in the way of development of relations between Tajikistan and the Russian Federation – Tajikistan’s indecision regarding joining the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and nonfulfillment by Russia of its promises regarding rearmament of Tajik national army.
