DUSHANBE, August 29, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- An August 28 cabinet meeting, presided over by President Emomali Rahmon, considered some 50 issues, according to presidential press service.

The meeting, in particular, considered and approved macroeconomic indices and main parameters of the national budget for 2010-2012 and sent them for consideration to the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament).

According to the document, gross domestic product for 2010 is expected to stand at 24.5 billion somoni (a 14 percent increase compared to 2009) and the national budget for 2010 will stand at 6.9541 billion somoni (a 25 percent increase compared to this year).

The government session also adopted resolution to set up the free economic zones (FEZ) Ishkashim (Gorno Badakhshan) and Danghara (Khatlon province).  The government approved regulations on establishing these FEZs and sent them for confirmation to the Majlisi Namoyandagon.

The session also decided to send addenda and changes proposed to the constitutional laws on the government and local government institutions and the laws on holidays and printing industry, as well as administrative code for consideration to the parliament’s lower house.

The government also considered and approved a number of legal documents, including the complex program for preventing avian influenza in Tajikistan designed for the period until 2012 and the rules of preparing the population for natural and anthropogenic disasters, the press service said.