DUSHANBE, May 25, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- On Wednesday May 25, Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) endorsed amendments to the country’s laws on prosecutor’s offices, constitutional court, ombudsman institution, national security bodies, anticorruption agency and public service as well as to the country’s customs code.

These amendments make knowing the state language compulsory for contenders for the mentioned public institutions.

Speaking on this subject, the Majlisi Namoyandagon speaker Shukurjon Zuhurov noted that those requirements were “a norm of the Constitution of Tajikistan, observance of which is compulsory in Tajikistan.”

Zuhurov stressed that the country’s law on the state language stated that all official papers in the country should be conducted in the state language.

MP Sattor Kholov noted that after the amendments take effect, persons wanting to make career in public service will have to take the state language test.