DUSHANBE, October 21, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik Interior Ministry migration service and Russia’s Sverdlovsk regional migration center have signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of labor migration in Dushanbe today.  

According to the Ministry of Interior (MoI), the agreement is aimed at promoting regulation of labor migration and organized sending of Tajik labor migrants to the Sverdlovsk region.  

Under this agreement, a branch of the Sverdlovsk regional migration center will be set up in Dushanbe.  The branch will provide legal ands social advices to Tajik labor migrants and assist them with employment in Sverdlovsk, the source at a MoI said.    

According to the MoI migration service, some 28 percent of Tajik labor migrants staying in the Russian Federation are working in the Sverdlovsk region.