A total volume of foreign investments that have come to Tajikistan over the first six months of this year amounts to 3.3 billion somoni (equivalent to 350.3 million U.S. dollars), which is 25.8 percent more than in the same last year, Farrukh Hamralizoda, the head of the State Committee on Investments and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest), told reporters in Dushanbe on August 1.
“Of them, 1.721 billion somoni (183 million U.S. dollars) are foreign direct investments,” Hamralizoda noted.
Over the report period, the main investing countries were China – 1.885 billion somoni (equivalent to 200 million U.S. dollars), Russia – 193 million somoni (equivalent to 20.4 million U.S. dollars), and Turkey – 161 million somoni (equivalent to some 17 million U.S. dollars).
According to Hamralizoda, Tajikistan’s investment portfolio now includes 70 projects totaling 29 billion somoni (equivalent to 3.07 billion U.S. dollars),
Tajikistan’s investment portfolio, in particular, includes 25 grant based projects, 13 loan based projects and 32 mixed-finance projects, GosKomInvest head added.
Within the next fourteen years, the Tajik authorities plan to attract annually more than 4 billion U.S. dollars in private investments.
