DUSHANBE, May 13, Asia-Plus  -- Arrival of an economic delegation of Russia’s Irkutsk region in Tajikistan, scheduled for May 13, has been postponed until late May, according to Tajikistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI).

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, the deputy CCI head, Asanali Karamaliyev, said that the visit is postponed in connection with of change of leadership of the Russian region.  “However, we hope that a group of large entrepreneurs from this Russian region seeking cooperation with our country will arrive in Tajikistan at the end of this month,” Mr. Karamaliyev said.  

According to the preliminary schedule of the visit program, during its stay in Tajikistan, the Irkutsk delegation is supposed to visit Qurghon Teppa, Khatlon province to sign a number of cooperation agreements with Khatlon authorities.

As it had been reported earlier, members of the Irkutsk delegation are also expected to hold a number of talks with Tajik enterprises and organizations dealing with organization of external labor migration and building-materials supplies to discuss cooperation issues.  They will discuss relating to expanding commercial relations, delivering saw timbers to Tajikistan, sending Tajik labor migrants to Russia’s Baikal region and importing Tajik aluminum,.  

It is the second visit of the Irkutsk economic delegation to Tajikistan.  For the first time, the Irkutsk delegation was in Tajikistan in 2003.