DUSHANBE, May 26, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Tajik and Russian interior ministries’ boards plan to hold the next joint meeting in Sochi, Russia in early August this year, an official source at the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan told Asia-Plus in an interview.

Co-chaired by Tajik Interior Ministry Ramazon Rahimzoda and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the meeting is expected to focus on issues related to cooperation between the law enforcement authorities of the two countries in combating international extremism and terrorism, transnational crime and drug trafficking.

While in Sochi, representatives of the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan will hold a series of meetings with Tajik migrant laborers working there, the source said.

The previous joint meeting of the Tajik and Russian interior ministries’ boards took place in Tajik northern city of Khujand in August last year.