Emomali Rahmon left for China on a state visit today. In the PRC, the President of Tajikistan will also attend the 9th Summit of the Heads of State of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
In this trip, the president is accompanied by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Economic Development and Trade, Energy and Water Resources, Education and Science, Finance, the head of the State Property Committee and the president of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, the press service of the President of Tajikistan reports.
The BRICS summit will be held in the South Chinese city of Xiamen. In its fields, several meetings between the leader of Tajikistan and his foreign colleagues are expected, the source in the government of the republic told "AP".
It is expected that during the state visit of Emomali Rahmon to the People's Republic of China, will finally be solved the issue of allocating a grant for the construction of new buildings of the Parliament and Government of Tajikistan.
On August 23, the lower house of the Tajik parliament ratified the Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation signed between the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan and the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China signed on May 1 of this year on the feasibility study of projects for the construction of new buildings of the Parliament and Government of the Republic of Tatarstan.
As noted at the meeting of the parliament, the ratification of the memorandum by the parliament, which is essentially only intent and not mandatory, was insisted by the Chinese side.
According to the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan Nematullo Hikmatullozoda, according to the memorandum, China intends to allocate about 1.5 billion yuan (about 230 million dollars) for the construction of these facilities.
The future building of the parliamentary complex of Tajikistan will be built on the territory of more than 42 thousand square meters, the government building – on the territory of 44 thousand square meters.
According to the information voiced in the parliament, the Chinese side undertakes to send construction equipment, materials, specialists in Dushanbe, the Tajik side – to exempt from taxes and customs duties imported materials and equipment, to prepare new buildings with the opinion of Chinese experts, to allocate land plots for construction.
