DUSHANBE, February 18, 2009, Asia-Plus — A meeting of the Tajik-Uzbek intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation is opening in Dushanbe today.
Along with issues related to trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, the commission is also expected to consider problems of delineation of common border between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the source said.
Uzbek delegation is led by First Deputy Prime Minister also Finance Minister Rustam Azimov.
According to the Industry of Energy and Industries (MoEI), the commission is supposed to consider some 13 issues, including cooperation in use of water and energy resources and transportation. Turkmen electricity deliveries to Tajikistan via Uzbek power systems are expected to be among major topics of the meeting.
We will recall that the last meeting of the Tajik-Uzbek commission for trade and economic cooperation was held in Dushanbe in August 2002. Tajik and Uzbek prime ministers who co-chaired the commissions signed the minutes of the meeting. An agreement between the governments of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on cooperation in the field of television broadcasting and a protocol agreement between the two countries” governments on the transit of rail freight and the transit of special freight were signed by them. Tajik and Uzbek border and customs services signed an agreement on the technical servicing of the state credit provided by the Uzbek government to the Tajik government and a protocol on the procedure for the functioning of double border checkpoints.
