Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon To Visit Russia On April 17 - Russian Finance Minister

Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon to Visit Russia on April 17 - Russian Finance Minister

Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon will pay an official visit to Moscow on April 17 to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Wednesday, adding that several bilateral documents would be signed during the meeting

DUSHANBE (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th March, 2019) Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon will pay an official visit to Moscow on April 17 to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Wednesday, adding that several bilateral documents would be signed during the meeting.

"The Tajik president will pay an official visit to Russia on April 17, so all the internal procedures must be finished and all the documents must be ready for signing by the time of this visit," Siluanov said during a briefing after a session of the Russian-Tajik Intergovernmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation that was taking place in Dushanbe.

According to the minister, these documents will pave the way for new opportunities for future bilateral cooperation.

On Tuesday, Siluanov held negotiations with Rakhmon to primarily discuss issues regarding the continued development of Russian-Tajik trade and economic relations, the Tajik leader's press office reported. Both sides expressed a willingness to continue working together in such fields as mineral processing, the light industry, energy, agriculture, finances, transport, logistics, information technology, communications and tourism.

Rakhmon paid his latest working visit to Moscow in October 2017 following Putin's trip to Tajikistan in February of the same year.