DUSHANBE, March 16, 2009, Asia-Plus — The board (Shuro) of the lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of Tajik parliament considered a number of bills at a March 16 meeting, presided over by its head, Saydullo Khairulloyev.
Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, said that the board had considered the draft laws on dehqon (peasant farm), additional education, and participation of citizens in maintaining public order as well as an agreement on cooperation between the CIS states in combating illegal trading in historical relics and a government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and India for the avoidance of double taxation and for the prevention of fiscal evasion.
Some of these issues will be considered at a regular sitting of the fifth session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the third convocation on March 18, Sultonov said.
He further added that the lower house was scheduled to hear the report by director of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption, Sherkhon Salimzoda, tomorrow on work carried out by the anticorruption agency last year.
