DUSHANBE, June 6, Asia-Plus -- The seventh meeting of the Tajik-Russian parliamentary cooperation is going on in Dushanbe today. 

The meeting is considering a progress of implementation of resolutions passed at the previous session, implementation of the Tajik-Russian government-to-government agreement on labor and mutual protection of rights citizens, as well as state of bilateral trade and economic cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia. 

According to press service of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament), Tajik Deputy Interior Minister Abdujabbor Shamsov and Russia’s Migration Service representative Yevgeny Semyonov have delivered statements on the labor agreement.

The meeting will also hear reports by Tajik Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister, Larisa Kislyakova, and Russia’s trade representative office head Aleksandr Yakovlev on state of trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.

As it had been reported earlier, a Russian parliamentary delegation, comprising deputies of the State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament) who are members of Tajik-Russian parliamentary group for cooperation between the State Duma and the Majlisi Namoyandagon, arrived Dushanbe yesterday evening. 

Boris Pastukhov, member of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism also co-chairman the Tajik-Russian parliamentary cooperation group, heads the visiting Russian delegation. 

Tajik co-chairman of the group is Mirzosharif Islomiddinov, the head of the Majlisi Namoyandagon Committee on Energy, Industry and Construction.   

Tomorrow, members of the Tajik-Russian parliamentary cooperation group are scheduled to visit the construction site for the Sangtuda-1 hydropower plant on the Vakhsh River.  

Russian parliamentarians’ visit to Tajikistan will last till June 8.