DUSHANBE, June 15, 2009, Asia-Plus — Yesterday evening, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon left Moscow for Yekaterinburg, where a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) opens tomorrow.
According to presidential press service, Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi, State Adviser to the President for International Matters Erkin Rahmatulloyev, Security Council Secretary Amirqul Azimov and Chairman of the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) Khairiddin Abdurahimov are accompanying Rahmon on his trip to Yekaterinburg. The summit is expected to discuss activity of the Organization in 2008-2009 and determine priorities of further activity of the SCO.
Today morning, President Rahmon held talks with Russia’s Sverdlovsk Governor Eduard Rossel in Yekaterinburg. Trade and economic as well as scientific and cultural cooperation of the Sverdlovsk region with Tajikistan and its regions as well as regulation of the labor migration from Tajikistan to this Russian region were the focus of the talks.
Rahmon and Rossel expressed satisfaction with the present level of cooperation in all areas, including organization of exhibitions, sale of road-building equipment, and participation of the Sverdlovsk enterprises in construction of the Sangtuda-1 and Roghun hydropower plants in Tajikistan, the press service said.
The two also considered the possibility of launching joint ventures for processing fruits and vegetables, joint mining enterprises as well as cooperation in developing tourism and relevant industries.
