DUSHANBE, May 13, Asia-Plus  -- President Emomali Rahmon held talks with Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov in Astana, Kazakhstan today, Tajik presidential press service said.  

In the course of the talks, the two expressed satisfaction with the level of Kazakhstan’s investment of money in Tajikistan’s economy.  

During the meeting, it was noted that 47 Tajik-Kazakh joint ventures currently work in Tajikistan.  Of them, 15 were launched at the expense of investments provided by Kazakh entrepreneurs only.  

Rahmon and Masimov noted that the establishment of a Joint Investment Fund will give a new impulse for further expansion of bilateral cooperation between the two countries. 

They noted that construction of a 500-kilovolt power grid Khujand-Almaty is profitable for all countries of the Central Asian region, the press service said.