DUSHANBE, September 27, 2008, Asia-Plus - We highly appraise projects being implemented in Tajikistan under support of the Swiss Government, Deputy Finance Minister, Jamoliddin Nouraliyev, remarked at a meeting in Dushanbe on September 26. 

The meeting was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of activity of the Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan.    

The deputy minister noted that Tajikistan currently carries out structural and institutional reforms with support of authoritative donors, including the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

 He noted that numerous local and regional projects aimed at supporting economic growth and improvement of living conditions of the population have been implemented in the country.  Nouraliyev named the project on technical assistance for development market of securities and management of internal debt in Tajikistan as the most important for “efficient implementation of socioeconomic, fiscal and monetary policy of our country.”    

“Implementation of this project will promote development of the domestic market of securities and support enhancement of fiscal and monetary policy, diversifying financial mediation in economy and intensifying the primary market, as well as will support further development of the secondary market,” the deputy minister said.  

Among ambitious projects Nouraliyev also named the PamirEnergy project, which, according to him, “promoted decrease in electricity rates for residential customers in Gorno Badakhshan for the purpose of lessening the fiscal load.”   

The Swiss-Tajik partnership for development started in 1998 when the Swiss Cooperation Office was officially opened in Dushanbe as a branch of the Cooperation Office in Bishkek.  In the year 2000 it became an independent representing body of the Swiss Government.  Since then, Switzerland has been actively promoting good governance principles through a wide range of projects implemented in the five major domains of interventions: Health Care Reform, Water Management and Disaster Risk Reduction, Public Institutions and Services, Basic Infrastructure, and Private Sector Development, which are continued to be implemented within the Cooperation Strategy for the Central Asia Region 2007-2011.