Today, President Emomali Rahmon received the Executive Director of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank Umesh Kumar.

The meeting discussed issues of cooperation of Tajikistan with this influential regional financial institution.

Particular attention was paid to the development of five-year strategy of bilateral cooperation for 2016-2020.

It was noted that as part of this strategy, in accordance with the indicative plan of the bank for the period 2015-2017 Tajikistan will be allocated more than 240 million US dollars. Given the growth of the negative impact of external factors on the economy of Tajikistan it was considered the possibility of increasing support of the Asian Development Bank for the country.

It is expected that ADB will provide substantial assistance for the effective implementation of anti-crisis plan of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan.

A constructive conversation took place around the possibility of financing of projects for the reconstruction of the Dushanbe-Kurgantyube and Rogun-Nurobod roads and continuing modernization of the Nurek hydropower plant, as well as implementation of other priority projects.