Tajik Leader Meets Ethnic Tajiks in Kazakhstan
Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 06:00 CDT
Text of report by privately-owned Tajik Avesta website on 13 May
Dushanbe, 13 May: During a meeting in Astana today with the Tajik diaspora in Kazakhstan, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon proposed that Tajiks living in Kazakhstan set up a union of Tajiks in Kazakhstan just like the one in Russia.
The Avesta news agency learnt at the presidential press service that the president praised the role of ethnic Tajiks in Kazakhstan in strengthening cultural and economic relations between Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.
"Despite the fact that you live in Kazakhstan, you are doing your best to keep in touch with your countrymen in Tajikistan. Currently, over 150 Tajik-speaking students from Kazakhstan are studying at Tajikistan's higher educational establishments. In recent five years, 217 Tajik citizens have studied at Kazakhstan's higher educational establishments," Rahmon said.
"This year, at the request of Tajiks living in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan's higher educational establishments allocated 50 places for Tajik-speaking young people to study in Tajikistan," the president noted.
Moreover, the meeting touched upon issues of labour migration and the Tajik diaspora's participation in developing Tajik-Kazakh relations.
Originally published by Avesta website, Dushanbe, in Russian 0610 13 May 08.
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