DUSHANBE, November 19, Asia-Plus  -- Tair Mansourov, Secretary General of the Eurasian Economic Community (AEC) has arrived in Dushanbe for a working visit.

Today afternoon, the EAEC secretary general is expected to hold talks with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon to discuss issues related to cooperation with the Community area.   

We will recall that at a meeting of the EAEC that was held in Dushanbe on October 6 this year it was announced that Tajikistan will formally take over the rotating chair of the organization in 2008, with Tajik President Rahmon serving as the chairman.  The announcement also followed the appointment of Tair Mansourov, a governor of the North Kazakhstan region and a former Kazakh ambassador to Russia, as the new secretary general of EAEC, replacing Grigory Rapota, who had headed the organization since October 2001.