DUSHANBE, September 12, Asia-Plus — Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev is arriving in Dushanbe today afternoon, at 4:00 p.m., for an official visit, Davlat Nazri, the head of the MFA information department, told journalists in Dushanbe today.

According to him, all official talks will tat tomorrow.  At first Nazarbayev will hold talks with his Tajik counterpart, President Emomali Rahmon, and after that an enlarged meeting with participation of delegations of the two countries will be held.  The sides are expected to consider prospects of further expansion of bilateral political, economic, cultural and humanitarian cooperation between Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.

A business forum with participation of Tajik and Kazakh entrepreneurs will open in the old building of the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT) tomorrow, at 3:00 pm.

In the evening, President Nazarbayev will meet with students and lecturers from Tajik National University at the Center for Strategic Studies.  After that, he will hold talks with the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) Chairman Saydullo Khairulloyev.

In the meantime, according to Kazakhstan’s national agency Kazinform, an agreement on creation of a joint investment fund is expected to be signed during Kazakh president’s official visit to Tajikistan. 

“A business forum with participation of entrepreneurs of the two countries, which will be held in Dushanbe, is supposed to result in signing of the agreement on setting up the joint investment fund with authorized capital stock of 100 million US dollars,” Kazinform cited Kazakh MFA official Yerzhan Ashikbayev Monday.  The fund will finance investment projects in the territory of Tajikistan, according to him.

Besides, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of investment and commerce will be signed in Dushanbe.