The President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon has addressed a congratulatory message to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmud Ahmadinejad on the occasion of national holiday of Iran, which reads, in part:
"We strongly believe in good prospects of relations between the two countries, which share common language and culture, as thanks to their expansion in fundamental areas, first of all in trade and investment sectors, over the recent years interstate relations between the two countries both in bilateral and multilateral formats have been developing consistently and elevated to a qualitatively new level.
I am fully confident that our further relations will strengthen on the basis of reliable existing legal-treaty basis and will facilitate remarkable increase of bilateral trade turnover and direct Iranian investments to strategic economic facilities of Tajikistan".