DUSHANBE, March 29, 2010, Asia-Plus — Tajik President Emomali Rahmon is expected to pay a state two-day visit to Singapore from March 31 to April 1, Asia-Plus has learned from a source close to the government.
High-ranking Tajik state officials, heads of a number of Tajikistan’s banks and representatives of the country’s business community will accompany Rahmon on his trip to Singapore and a number of cooperation documents will be signed during this visit.
We will recall that on December 7-12, 2009, Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi was on an official tour of a number of Southeast Asian countries that brought him to Singapore (December 7-8), Brunei Darussalam (December 8-9) and Indonesia (December 9-12).
In Singapore, Zarifi held talks with his counterpart George Yeo, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang, and Environment and Water Resources Minister Yaacob Ibrahim. The Tajik foreign minister also attended briefing by the Singapore Business Federation. Issues related to establishment of direct ties between business communities of the two countries were discussed at the meeting.
According to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, trade between Tajikistan and Singapore over the first two months of this year has amounted to 119,700 U.S. dollars, which was 42.3 percent more than in the same period last year.
