DUSHANBE, January 14, Asia-Plus — The board (Shuro) of Tajikistan’s lower chamber (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament considered three laws returned by the president to the parliament for reconsideration at a January 14 meeting presided over by the first deputy speaker Safar Safarov.
We will recall that President Emomali Rahmon on January 5 returned to the parliament three laws as requiring improvement. Among them are laws on mortgage, wadset (real estate mortgage) and amendments to the tax code. .
Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, said that the board had also considered laws on medical insurance and anticorruption agency as well as amendments to the laws on border troops, education, state finance, an electric coupling.
The board also discussed amendments made to the country’s forestry and family codes.
The Shuro members also considered a Tajik-Azeri agreement on free trade and a draft program for Tajikistan’s foreign borrowings for 2008-2010.
Some of these issues will be considered at the sitting of the fourth session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the third convocation that will be held on January 16, the spokesman said.
