DUSHANBE, February 12, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- German researcher, Professor Friedrich-Christian Schroeder, considers that development of energy sector in Tajikistan meets the interests of all the nations of the region and their southern neighbors and Tajikistan’s energy sector can become a reliable source of power in the foreseeable future, according to the Tajik MFA information department.

The source says Professor Schroeder, head of the International Law Department at the Regensburg Science Center for East and Southeast Europe, has stated that recently at a roundtable entitled “Water and Energy Policy in Central Asia.”

According to him, the meeting was organized by the Regensburg Science Center and the Munich Institute for Water Law with participation of the Tajik Embassy in Berlin.

Professor Schroeder, in particular, noted that Tajikistan played an important role in providing sustainable development of Central Asia.

He underlined significance of economic programs, in particular energy projects, being implemented in the country, the Tajik MFA information department said.  “Development of this important and attractive sector of Tajikistan’s economy meets the interests of all the countries of the region and their southern neighbors and it may become the reliable alternative source of power in the foreseeable future,” German researcher noted.

Tajik Ambassador to Germany Imomuddin Sattorov acquainted the meeting participants with priorities of domestic and foreign policy of Tajikistan, reforms being carried out in the country as well as Tajikistan’s regional and international initiatives to ensure rational use of water resources, environmental protection and sustainable socioeconomic development of the region.

In this context, attention of those present was drawn to actual reasons for the Aral Sea ecological disaster -- application of outdated irrigation technologies and use of drinking water for irrigation of vast cotton fields have led to the Aral Sea ecological disaster.

Tajikistan’s hydroelectricity projects were presented on sidelines of the meeting.