DUSHANBE, September 1, 2011, Asia-Plus — Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi held talks with his Kyrgyz and Belarusian counterparts in Dushanbe on September 1, the Tajik MFA information department reports.
State and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan as well as cooperation between the two nations within international and regional organizations were the focus of Zarifi’s meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart Ruslan Kazakbayev.
In the course of the talks, Mr. Kazakbayev reportedly expressed gratitude to the Tajik side for its inestimable support for democratic processes taking place in Kyrgyzstan.
Zarifi and Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergey Martynov discussed a broad range of issues related to state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral mutually beneficial cooperation between Tajikistan and Belarus as well as cooperation between the two countries in a multilateral format.
Zarifi underlined the significance of the Tajik-Belarusian commission for trade and economic cooperation for expansion of bilateral cooperation between the two nations.
Martynov, for his part, noted that opening of direct air route between Minsk and Dushanbe would promote expansion of cooperation between Belarus and Tajikistan in all sectors, the source said.
