DUSHANBE, April 6, Asia-Plus — To attract U.S. energy companies to domestic market Tajikistan ought to eradicate corruption.
U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Tracey Ann Jacobson remarked this at a news conference in Dushanbe on April 5.
Asked about possible investments in Tajikistan’s energy sector, Jacobson said that there are no large state-run energy companies in the United States.
“We have private companies. The private companies do not work under political pressure,” U.S. diplomat said, noting that private investors cannot be ordered where and how to invest.
They work only there, where there is an opportunity to gain profit and where all is transparent and conditions do not change, according to her.
“I hope our companies will be interested in Tajikistan,” Ambassador Jacobson said.
