DUSHANBE, June 4, 2009, Asia-Plus -- On Wednesday June 3, President Emomali Rahmon and his Afghan counterpart, President Hamid Karzai, held a distant video conference, according to presidential press service.

The video conference has become possible due to installation of an optical fiber communications line between the two countries.

During the video conference, President Rahmon congratulated people of both countries on that important event in relations between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

The leaders noted that installation of the optical fiber communications line connecting Tajikistan and Afghanistan was continuation of construction of bridges, roads, power grids joining both countries and removing artificial barriers on the way of development of relations between the two countries.

Rahmon and Karzai discussed a broad range of issues related to many-sided cooperation between the two countries, the press service said.