Tajik President Emomali Rahmon will hold a meeting with female economic activists here tomorrow on the occasion of the Day of the Mother that is marked in Tajikistan on March 8.

The meeting will take place at the Kokhi Borbad State Complex, a source in the Tajik government told Asia-Plus in an interview.

The head of state will congratulate the meeting participants on the Day of the Mother and then they will discuss problems facing the country and Tajik women.

The official part of the meeting will be followed by festive concert, the source said.  

Recall, International Women’s Day has been known in Tajikistan as the Day of the Mother since March 2009.  Congratulating women on March 8, 2009, President Emomali Rahmon said that International Women’s Day has only been celebrated on March 8 for about 100 years, but that ancient Aryan women -- the ancestors of the Tajiks -- had special days both for mothers, specifically, and for women in general.