DUSHANBE, June 5, Asia-Plus — A Russian parliamentary delegation, comprising deputies of the State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament) who are members of Tajik-Russian parliamentary group for cooperation between the State Duma and the Majlisi Namoyandagon (the lower house of the Tajik parliament), is arriving in Dushanbe today evening.
Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, said that the Russian delegation is led by Boris Pastukhov, member of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism also co-chairman the Tajik-Russian parliamentary cooperation group.
Tajik co-chairman of the group is Mirzosharif Islomiddinov, the head of the Majlisi Namoyandagon Committee on Energy, Industry and Construction.
Tomorrow, the 7th session of the parliamentary cooperation group will be held in Dushanbe. The session is aiming to consider a progress of implementation of resolutions passed at the previous session, implementation of the Tajik-Russian government-to-government agreement on labor and mutual protection of rights citizens, as well as state of bilateral trade and economic cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia, the spokesman said.
On June 7, members of the Tajik-Russian parliamentary cooperation group are scheduled to visit the construction site for the Sangtuda-1 hydropower plant on the Vakhsh River.
Russian parliamentarians’ visit to Tajikistan will last till June 8, according to Sultonov.
