Iran will participate in efforts to complete the long-stalled Rogun hydroelectric power project in Tajikistan, Iran's ambassador to Dushanbe has announced.
Tehran would "be involved in the construction of the Rogun hydroelectric power station, both at the governmental level and through the private sector," Ali Asghar Sherdust said, the news agency CA-news.org reported February 6.
There may be no justice in Uzbekistan, but a meeting of civil and criminal judges, regional governors and Supreme Court judges declared 2008 a successful year for the Uzbek judicial system.
Buritosh Mustafaev, president of the Supreme Court, said reforms carried out under President Islam Karimov's leadership produced "tangible results," the Uzreport.com website reported February 6.
The Russian railway company, RZD, will help construct the Turkmen portion of the North-South rail transport corridor linking Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, the semi-official Turkmenistan.ru news website confirmed February 6.
NATO's chief official in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Robert Simmons, appears to have secured Turkmenistan's endorsement of a variety of cooperation projects with the Atlantic Alliance, covering the fights against drug trafficking and terrorism, according to a February 5 report broadcast on Turkmen state television.
