On May 9, at the Palace of the Nation, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Leader of the Nation, Honorable Emomali Rahmon gave an interview to the journalist of the Xinhua News Agency of the People’s Republic of China An Xiaoming.

The Head of State Emomali Rahmon answered the journalist’s questions about the state and prospects of relations between Tajikistan and China, the high-level dialogue between the two countries, the main achievements of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, relations between Tajikistan and China within the framework of this organization, the effectiveness of the joint initiative to build the «Silk Road Economic Belt», the situation of security, stability and development in the region and the world, the expansion of humanitarian relations between the two countries, including in the Confucius Centers and the Liu Ban Institute of China in Tajikistan, and other pressing issues of cooperation.