DUSHANBE, December 5, Asia-Plus — On Tuesday December 5, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon met with a group of Japanese businessmen in Tokyo.
Presidential press service said that establishment of contacts and cooperation between Tajik and Japanese entrepreneurs had been focus of the meeting.
In the course of the talks the Tajik head of state informed those present about the economic situation in Tajikistan and macroeconomic indices. He noted that favorable conditions had been created in Tajikistan for attracting foreign investments and called on the Japanese entrepreneurs to actively cooperate with their Tajik counterparts.
Rahmon, in particular, noted that over the past five years, Tajikistan’s gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by 50 percent, and the budget’s revenue part has increased five times.
In 2006, Tajikistan’s external debt amounted to 31 percent of the country’s GDP, while in 2001, it amounted to 108 percent of GDP, the president said.
According to him, Tajikistan’s rich natural resources and labor potentials together with Japan’s investments and technologies are a good opportunity for taking a worthy place on the market of the region.
Speaking at the meeting, Sharif Rahim, Chairman of the State Committee for Investments and Management of State-owned Property, acquainted Japanese entrepreneurs with Tajik investment projects.
