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Tajik Leader Opens Ceremony to Resume Russia-Funded Power Plant's Building

Posted on: Monday, 26 September 2005, 09:01 CDT

Excerpt from report by Tajik news agency Asia-Plus website

Dushanbe, 26 September: An official ceremony devoted to the resumption of the construction of the Roghun hydroelectric power station is currently under way in the town of Roghun [some 80 km west of Dushanbe].

Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko [as published; Khristenko listed as Russian minister of industry and energy], who arrived at the ceremony, and RusAl [Russian Aluminium] head Oleg Deripaska opened the meeting by delivering their speeches at Roghun's central square, where a symbolic stele will be installed later.

A deputy Tajik energy minister, Akram Sulaymonov, told journalist present at the ceremony that about 1bn dollars would be allocated for the first phase of the hydroelectric power station's construction. The first phase of the construction work is expected to be completed by 2009.

[Passage omitted: the first phase includes the construction of a 225-metre-high dam]

Source: BBC Monitoring Central Asia

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