The Mazhilis (Kazakhstan’s lower house of parliament) today endorsed a number of draft laws on ratification of several agreements signed between Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, including the agreement on the rules of stay of Tajik nationals in Kazakhstan and Kazakh nationals in Tajikistan

Dushanbe Mayor Rustam Emomali has signed a decree on establishing the Education Development Council under the City Administration

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture of Tajikistan last month signed the project document “Developing Capacity for Strengthening Food Security and Nutrition in Selected Countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia”

Dushanbe is the first among the Central Asian capital cities to install a New Year’s tree. The work on installation of a 28-meter light-emitting New Year tree, which is considered the main New Year’s tree of Tajikistan, was completed on December 9

Tajik researchers have reportedly discovered two new minerals this year – ‘falgarit’ and ‘badakhshanit’

The issue of change in administrative borders of the Tajik capital will be discussed at the next session of the Dushanbe local council (Majlis) that will take place on December 18

The 17th session of the local council (Majlis) of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of Tajikistan was adjourned on December 5 until December 11

Foreign ministers of Central Asia’s nations (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and Japan will gather in Dushanbe next week for the 7th meeting of foreign ministers of The Central Asia plus Japan Dialogue scheduled for December 15-16, a source in Tajik government told Asia-Plus in an interview

In a report delivered at the 25th meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Milan, Italy, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin on December 6 once again called on the OSCE participating States to refrain from conducting the policy of double standards while tackling the topical issues of the day’s agenda, according to the Tajik MFA information department

he third edition of the Global Migration Film Festival (GMFF) has been launched by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) – The United Nations Migration Agency in over 100 countries