DUSHANBE, November 22, 2008, Asia-Plus — President Emomali Rahmon will pay an official visit to Iran on November 26-28, according to the Iranian Embassy in Dushanbe.
During his three-day stay in Iran, Rahmon is scheduled to hold talks with his Iranian counterpart, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and a number of other high-ranking Iranian state officials to discuss bilateral cooperation between the two countries as well as international and regional issues being of mutual interest.
Economic cooperation between Tajikistan and Iran, in particular in the field of energy, are supposed to be a major topic of the talks.
It will be second visit of the Tajik president to Iran this year.
We will recall that Rahmon was on the official visit to Iran this year on February 9-10. In February, Tajikistan and Iran signed three agreements on energy, petrochemical and transport cooperation. The power agreement was signed by the Iranian and Tajik energy ministers. The two countries also signed a letter of understanding on setting up a joint chemical company and also making joint investment in supplying mechanical equipment for loading and unloading alumina powder shipment at Shahid Rajaei port, according to Iran’s news agency IRNA. The presidents signed the letter of understanding on cooperation and a joint statement to that effect, IRNA said.
