DUSHANBE, October 7, 2011, Asia-Plus — President Emomali Rahmon yesterday received Dr. Ramazan Abdulatipov, Chancellor of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts also ex-Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan, who arrived in Dushanbe to attend an international conference on national traditions and modern trends that took place here on October 3-6, according to the presidential press service.
In the course of the talks, Emomali Rahmon and Ramazan Abdulatipov exchanged views on issues related to cultural and educational cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia.
Abdulatipov informed President Rahmon of the results of the conference and gave his book “My Tajik People” to Emomali Rahmon as a keepsake.
Dr. Abdulatipov said that he really considered the Tajiks his people and there were two reasons for that. “Firstly, early Daghestani poets wrote their poetries in Persian and thereby they created our common cultural space and the second reason is that when I served as diplomat here, Tajiks accepted me and my family as citizens of Tajikistan,” Ramazan Abdulatipov noted during the meeting.
