DUSHANBE, July 30, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Kyrgyzstan will provide humanitarian aid to the disaster-affected regions of Tajikistan.

Kyrgyz media outlets cited Kyrgyz Vice-Premier Abdyrahman Mamataliyev as saying that Dushanbe had applied to the government of Kyrgyzstan asking to allow a convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid to cross through Kyrgyz territory.

Tajikistan now needs diesel fuel, cement, transformers, roofing, fittings and other building materials, Kyrgyz official noted.

Besides, Kyrgyz government bodies have been ordered to apply to the country’s business community with proposal to provide assistance to the disaster-affected regions of Tajikistan.

Kyrgyzstan reportedly plans to send humanitarian aid to Tajikistan next week.

We will recall that mudslides and floods caused by melting glaciers and torrential rains have killed six people in the Vanj district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) and one in the Rasht district.  The mudslides and floods have destroyed dozens of residential buildings and damaged roads, power transmission lines, and irrigation canals in mountain regions of Tajikistan.

Tajik MFA said on July 21 that the damages caused by the mudslides and floods were estimated at 100 million U.S. dollars.