Today the President of the country Emomali Rahmon received the Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank Xiaoyu Zhao.
The issues related to long-term cooperation between Tajikistan and this authoritative bank have been reviewed at the meeting.
It was noted with satisfaction that in previous years the mentioned bank has allocated for Tajikistan approximately 1 billion USD of preferential credits, grants and technical aid and currently realizes a number of other projects in energy, transport and state finance sectors at the expense of general amount of 530 million USD.
It was also highlighted that at the present the reconstruction of Dushanbe-Tursunzoda-border with Uzbekistan automobile road is being conducted by grant financing of the ADB. The relevant decision has been adopted on the same reconstruction of automobile road Aini-Panjakent-border with Uzbekistan.
In this regard, the Head of State Emomali Rahmon expressed thanks to the leadership of the ADB and expressed confidence that such mutually advantageous cooperation will be further enhanced and deepened.