DUSHANBE, December 10, Asia-Plus — Saydullo Khairulloyev, Chairman of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament), met with Husein Anvari, head of Iran’s Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, in Dushanbe on Monday.
Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, said that issues related to activities of Iranian charity in Tajikistan had been focus of the meeting.
Tajik speaker highly appraised many-sided activity of the Imam Khomeini relief Committee in Tajikistan and its contribution to assistance to vulnerable families in the country.
On the inter-parliamentary ties of the Majlisi Namoyandagon, Khairulloyev noted that Tajik parliament attached significance to cooperation with Iranian parliament and activity of the Tajik-Iranian parliamentary friendship group was evidence of that.
For his part, Anvari noted that the charity would provide assistance to vulnerable sections of the Tajik population in future as well.
Husein Anvari, heading a high-ranking Iranian delegation arrived in Dushanbe on December 9 for a working visit.
According the Iranian Embassy in Dushanbe, the delegation members include senior representatives from the charity and two Iranian MPs.
During their stay in Tajikistan the Iranian delegation members are also scheduled to hold talks with 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
They are also supposed attend 100 weddings that will simultaneously take place in Kulob.
