Arif and Rahmon stress wider cultural and economic cooperation

Mohammadreza Arif and Emomali Rahmon underlined the need to expand cultural and civilisational cooperation between the two countries. The meeting also highlighted plans for a union of Persian-speaking countries and regions, a joint high committee on Persian language and literature, and the revival of the ancestral alphabet in Tajikistan.

According to the report, the two sides also listed economic and energy cooperation, the launch of a joint technology centre, linking Tajikistan to the open waters of the Persian Gulf, and making use of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as further areas of cooperation.