DUSHANBE, November 30, Asia-Plus — Husein Anvari, head of Iran’s Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, heading a high-ranking Iranian delegation will arrive in Tajikistan on December 8 for a six-day visit.
Iran charity’s office in Dushanbe hosted a news conference on this subject on November 30.
Speaking to journalists, Hamid Azimi, the head of the Committee office in Tajikistan, said that the delegation members include senior representatives from the charity and two Iranian MPs.
During their stay in Tajikistan, the delegation members are scheduled to hold talks with President Emomali Rahmon, the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) Chairman Saydullo Khairulloyev, Deputy Prime Minister Khairinisso Yusufi, Labor and Social Security Minister Shukurjon Zuhurov, and Tajik Public Relief Fund Director Talbak Nazarov. The talks will focus on state and prospects of further expansion of cooperation between Tajikistan and Iran’s relief committee and the committee’s activities in the country..
“On December 9, they will attend 100 weddings that will simultaneously take place in Kulob,” Mr. Azimi said, adding that it will be the fourth event of this kind in Tajikistan.
He reminded that two such events were held in Dushanbe and another one was held in the Nourobod district, eastern Tajikistan.
“We hope that will be able to hold such events in Gorno Badakhshan and Sughd as well,” the head of the office of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Tajikistan said.
We will recall that young men and women that were simultaneously married in Tajikistan are orphans or come from vulnerable or incomplete families, and therefore, weddings were held under support of Iran’s charity.
According to Mr. Azimi, they plan to open training centers on sewing in Kulob (1), Dushanbe (2) and Khujand (1), bringing a tot al number of such centers to 10 in Tajikistan.
On the aid provided by the committee to vulnerable people in Tajikistan, Mr. Azimi noted that they render humanitarian and support vulnerable people through providing gift loans for 3-4 years. “Every year, more than 8,000 people in Tajikistan receive humanitarian aid from the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee,” he said, adding that they have assisted to renovate residential buildings and apartments of 135 vulnerable families since the beginning of this year.
