DUSHANBE, August 7, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- President Emomali Rahmon today morning left for Beijing, where along with presidents of other countries he will attend an official ceremony of opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games due on August 8.   

Today, Emomali Rahmon is scheduled to visit the Olympic village to meet with Tajik athletes.  

During his stay in Beijing, Rahmon is also expected to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart, President Hu Jintao, and senior representatives of Chinese companies, including Zijin Mining, which now assumes the 75 percent ownership interest in the Zeravshan Gold Company (ZGC).     

As it had been reported earlier, fifteen Tajik athletes have qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.  Among them hummer throwers Dilshod Nazarov and Galina Mityayeva; judo players Rasoul Boqiyev, Sherali Bozorov and Nematullo Asronqulov; free-style wrestlers Yusuf Abdusalomov and Vitaly Koryakin; boxers Anvar Yunusov, Jahon Qurbonov and Sherali Dostiyev; swimmers Yekaterina Izmaylova and Alisher Chingizov; female archer Albina Kamolitdinova; weightlifter Nizom Sangov, and Sergey Bibikov (sports shooting).