DUSHANBE, March 6, Asia-Plus — Issues related to national traditions and rituals were discussed at a meeting of President Emomali Rahmon with heads of the country’s law enforcement agencies on April 5.
According to presidential press service, the meeting considered a progress of implementation of orders and commissions of the president made at a March 20 meeting with representatives from intelligentsia.
A special attention was paid to organization of school festivities and implementation of Rahmon’s order to ban the use of cell phones and private cars at high schools and higher educational schools.
On the school festivities, including high school graduation party, which Emomali Rahmon proposed to name “Maturity Bell”, the head of state noted that such meetings should be held only inside schools with participation of pupils and teachers only of those classes, to whom these meetings concern, without holding evening parties and additional gatherings.
The anticorruption agency director Shekhon Salimov and heads of other competent bodies are to reveal financial sources of students to purchase luxurious cars.
Rahmon stressed that first of all heads of ministries and organizations and other their state officials and their children should set an example to others in proper holding of national traditions and rituals.
Prosecutor-general’s office, interior ministry, state committee for national security, heads of central and local bodies of power are to hold an explanatory work and take measures to provide implementation of president’s orders and commissions.
