Tajik president to visit Moscow to attend Eurasian body summit

Avesta website, Dushanbe
21 Jun 05

Dushanbe, 21 June: A Tajik delegation headed by President Emomali
Rahmonov will visit Moscow to attend a session of the Interstate
Council of the Eurasian Economic Community [EAEC, to be held on 22
June], Avesta has learnt at the presidential administration. The EAEC
also includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Armenia,
Moldova and Ukraine have the observer status.

Rahmonov is expected to hold a number of bilateral talks with his
counterparts as part of the session.

The session will discuss the formation of the EAEC’s single customs
tariff. Moreover, a number of projects, including a blueprint of
cooperation between the community’s member states in the monetary
sphere; a cooperation agreement in the field of organizing an
integrated currency market; agreements on interaction between border
departments in crisis situations on external borders, and other issues
are to be considered.

Furthermore, on 23 June a session of the Collective Security Council
(CSC) of the CSTO [Collective Security Treaty Organization] member
states – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan and
Kyrgyzstan – will be held in Moscow. Sessions of the Council of
Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defence Ministers and the Committee
of Secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO member states will
be held a day earlier, that is on 22 June.