From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 10:00:25 EDT
Tajik parliament lower house opens session
Excerpts from report by the Tajik news agency Asia-Plus on 3rd October
After summer holidays, yesterday, 2nd October, the [parliament] deputies
resumed work: the second session of the Assembly of Representatives [lower
house] of the Supreme Assembly of Tajikistan of the second convocation
opened. The Asia-Plus news agency learned from the parliament's press
centre on 3rd October that the session had eight issues on its agenda.
The deputies took positive decisions on most of them.
[Passage omitted: the deputies approved resolutions on changes in the
composition of some of their committees]
They also endorsed a number of draft laws, including on amendments and
addenda to the law on defence, on amendments and addenda to the law on the
armed forces and on transport.
Discussing a draft law on competition and restricting monopolistic
activities on the commodities market, the deputies decided to set up
commissions to thoroughly study the issue and report to the next session of
the Assembly of Representatives. A similar decision was taken on a draft
law on power engineering.
At the end of the sitting the deputies considered and approved a plan of
legislative work for the last quarter of the year 2000.
The lower house will continue the session tomorrow, 4th October.
Source: Asia-Plus news agency, Dushanbe, in Russian 0844 gmt 03 Oct 00
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