Text of report by state-owned Tajik Television First Channel on 13 October A decree by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon on appointing [Sharofiddin Zuhuriddinovich] Imomov as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Under Article 69 of the Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan, I order that Sharofiddin Zuhuriddinovich Imomov be appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

Excerpt from report by state-owned Tajik news agency Khovar website Dushanbe, 27 September: Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, who is now in New York, has met UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The two discussed issues of Tajikistan's cooperation with the UN and its institutions and programmes.

Text of report by privately-owned Tajik Avesta website on 27 September Dushanbe, 27 September: The head of Tethys Petroleum Limited, David Robson, assured Tajik President Emomali Rahmon at a meeting in New York on 26 September that the extraction of natural gas in the Komsomol oil and gas field would be started by the end of the year.

Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik news agency Asia- Plus website Dushanbe, 19 September: No limit on the supply of electricity will be introduced in Dushanbe in this autumn and the winter of 2009, the mayor of the city, Mahmadsaid Ubaydulloyev, said at a meeting today.

Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik news agency Asia- Plus Dushanbe, 18 September: Issues of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia have been discussed at a meeting between Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and the head of the Russian presidential administration, Sergey Naryshkin, who arrived in Dushanbe yesterday leading a Russian delegation to take part in the third forum of [representatives of] the scientific and creative intelligentsia of CIS member countries.