DUSHANBE, November 26, 2013, Asia-Plus – On Tuesday November 26, the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) endorsed amendments proposed to the country’s law on science and national science and technology policy.

Presenting the amendments, MP Lutfullo Saidmurodov noted that they are aimed against the wrongful appropriation of other authors’ ideas and discoveries.

According to him, they proposed the amendments following recommendations of international scientific circles, UNESCO and CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.

“Researchers must respects and observe the Code of Research Ethics that will be worked out by the Academy of Sciences in the near future,” the parliamentarian said.

Saidmurodov further noted that more than 10,000 researchers now work in Tajikistan; some 4,000 of them have scientific degrees.  Every year, the national budget reportedly earmarks more than 135 million somoni for development of science.