DUSHANBE, June 8, Asia-Plus – President Emomali Rahmon today attended an official ceremony of reopening of an observatory in his native town of Danghara.

Built in 1980, the observatory had not worked over the past twenty years.  According to the Tajik president’s official website, the observatory was damaged in the Ninetieths during the civil war in the country.

In 1995, the “Sanglokh” observatory was granted the status of international observatory.

Speaking at the reopening ceremony, Rahmon noted that one million somoni had been spent for rehabilitation of the observatory.

“Despite global financial and economic crisis, the government has provided more than 300 million somoni for development of the Academy of Sciences over the past decade,” the president said.