DUSHANBE, May 12, Asia-Plus  -- President Emomali Rahmon today left for Astana, Kazakhstan for a two-day official visit.  

Davlat Nazriyev, head of the Tajik MFA information department, told Asia-Plus today that the visit is expected to result in signing of eight bilateral documents, with three of them being signed by President Emomali Rahmon and his Kazakh counterpart, President Nursultan Nazarbayev. 

According to him, the presidents of the two countries are supposed to sign a joint statement, a memorandum on establishment of the interstate coordination committee of Tajikistan and Kazakhstan and the committee of foreign ministers of Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, as well as a program of economic cooperation between Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. 

Besides, a cooperation agreement between Tajik Committee for Environmental Protection and Kazakh, a memorandum of cooperation between the Civil Service Directorate at the Tajik President and the Kazakh Agency for Civil Service Affairs, a memorandum of cooperation between the Tajik Ministry of Energy and Industries and the Kazakh Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, and a memorandum of intentions between the Tajik Committee for Youth, Sports and Tourism Affairs and the Kazakh Ministry of Tourism and Sports will also be signed in Astana.  

The Tajik State Committee for Investments and Management and State-owned Property and Kazakhstan''s sustainable-development fund, Kazyna, are expected to sign an agreement on establishment of joint-stock company (JSC) Kazakh-Tajik Fund for Direct Investments.  

Tomorrow, President Rahmon is expected to hold meeting with representatives of the Tajik Diaspora in Kazakhstan, Nazriyev said.