DUSHANBE, September 21, 2012, Asia-Plus — Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Shuvalov, heading a Russian government delegation arrived in Dushanbe Thursday evening on a working visit.
A well-informed source in the Tajik government says Konstantin Romodanovsky, the head of Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS), is among the delegation members.
Today afternoon, Shuvalov will be received by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
The sides are expected to consider a broad range of issues related to state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and the Russian Federation.
Meanwhile, some sources say that it cannot be ruled out that the issue of restoration of the tax-free status for the Russian oil products exported to Tajikistan will be raised at the meeting.
We will recall that Tajikistan was exempted from paying Russian tariffs on oil and gas exports from 1995-2010 and Russia cancelled Tajikistan’s tax exemption on May 1, 2010.
The sides are also supposed to consider issues related to the presence of the Russian military base in Tajikistan a schedule of the upcoming visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Tajikistan. Putin is expected to pay visit to Tajikistan in early October.
