DUSHANBE, April 27, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- As of April 1, 2010, Tajikistan’s investment portfolio included 55 projects for a total of more than 8 billion somoni (equivalent to 1.8 billion U.S. dollars), Davlatali Saidov, the head of the State Committee for Investments and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest), announced at a news conference in Dushanbe.

According to him, loans have accounted for 75.3 percent of the country’s investment portfolio, grants have accounted for 14.2 percent and the remaining 7 percent are the state funds.

“Over the first three months of this year, 24.4 million U.S. dollars of the investment funds have been drawn for implementation of various projects,” the GosKomInvest head said noting that over the report period, 47.7 million somoni have been spent for the road building projects and 19 million somoni have been spent for the energy projects.