DUSHANBE, 24.07.2021 (NIAT Khovar) – Today, per initiative of the Kazakh side, the Prime Minister Kohir Rasulzoda held a telephone conversation with his Kazakh counterpart Askar Mamin.

PMs discussed topical issues of Tajik-Kazakh interaction in trade, economic, investment, cultural and humanitarian spheres.

They paid particular attention to the implementation of the agreements reached following the official visit of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev to Tajikistan on May 19-20 this year.

While considering the severe drought observed in the region this year, the Tajik side, based on the principles of mutual support, friendship and good neighborliness, made a decision on an additional release of water from the Bahri Tojik reservoir in the amount of 50 cubic meters per second for the irrigation needs of Kazakhstan.