DUSHANBE, December 13, 2011, Asia-Plus — A regular sitting of the third session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) of the fourth convocation will take place on December 16, Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, said.
According to him, the Majlisi Namoyandagon will consider bills requiring amendments to the laws on the national budget for 2011, standardization, militsia (police), applications of citizens and self-government institutions in settlements and jamoats (local communities) as well as the customs and tax codes of the country.
The session is also planned to hear a report by Mahmadali Vatanov, the head of the Majlisi Namoyandagon Committee on Legislation and Human Rights, on the results of his trip to St. Petersburg, Sultonov said.
We will recall that Vatanov was sent to St. Petersburg on December 6 to monitor the investigation into the brutal killing of Tajik national in St. Petersburg.
As it had been reported earlier, beheaded body of Tajik national Bakhtiyor Rasoulov was found with numerous stab wounds in a burned-out car in St. Petersburg”s outskirts on November 16. Bakhtiyor Rasoulov, from the southern Khatlon province, had worked as a taxi driver in St. Petersburg for several years.
Tajik parliament speaker Shukurjon Zuhurov publicly condemned the killing in late November and expressed the hope that Russian law enforcement services “will prevent such shameful acts in the future.”
The brutal killing of Tajik national drew a wide public response in Tajikistan and the St. Petersburg law enforcement authorities assured that all necessary measures are taken to solve the crime.
