Two deputies of Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament (Majlisi Oli) – Bakhtovar Safarzoda and Hokimjon Kholiqzoda — have visited Moscow to meet Tajik labor migrants working there.
“They have acquainted Tajik labor migrants with the situation in Tajikistan and distributed president’s annual address to parliament brochures to them,” Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon told Asia-Plus today morning.
According to him, the meeting has taken place at Moscow’s Yuzhnyyev Vorota (South Gate) Market.
Tajik PMs, in particular, noted during the meeting that extremist and terrorist organizations are attracting unemployed youth, including those who travel to Russia as labor migrants.
They reportedly noted that there is no need today to travel abroad to obtain religious education. All necessary conditions for obtaining religious education have been created in Tajikistan itself, MPs said.
“MPs also noted that emissaries of international terrorist organizations quite often promise Tajik youth religious education abroad but the youth they recruit actually become militants,” Sultonov said.
Recall, Tajik labor migrants’ problems were also discussed at the Tajik-Russian inter-parliamentary forum entitled “Tajikistan-Russia: Potential of Inter-Region Collaboration” that took place in Moscow on October 24-26.
Presided over by Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament) Speaker Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev and Russia’s Federation Council Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko, the event, in particular, discussed issues related to providing pensions to Tajik labor migrants by their employers.
