DUSHANBE, June 1, 2015, Asia-Plus – Dushanbe will host the next Tajikistan-Kazakhstan business forum this week.

Organized by Tajikistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and Kazakhstan’s National Export and Investment Agency (Kaznex Invest), the event will take place at Sheraton Dushanbe Hotel on June 4.

According to the CCI press center, representatives of more than 20 Kazakh export companies operating in the fields of mechanical engineering, chemical and food industries will take part in the forum.

The main objective of the event is in promoting further expansion of mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, the source said.

The previous meeting of representatives of the business communities of Tajikistan and Kazakhstan took place in Dushanbe on June 3, 2014.  Representatives of more than 100 companies from both parties reportedly participated in that forum that resulted in signing of contracts to a total amount of more than 60 million U.S. dollars.

According to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, a two-way trade between Tajikistan and Kazakhstan over the first three months of this year has valued at nearly 160 million U.S. dollars.