Tajikistan’s trade turnover with the CIS countries increased by 17.8 percent for the eight months of this year compared to the same period in 2017, the TajikTA news agency reported.

About 60,000 tons of cotton was harvested in Tajikistan as of September 18 from the beginning of cotton harvest season, Tajik media outlets reported.

Issues of development and deepening of regional economic cooperation were discussed in Dushanbe city at the meeting of ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states, Sputnik Tajikistan reported citing TajikTA news agency.

A delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headed by Padamja Khandelwal arrived in Tajikistan to discuss the new Extended Credit Facility (ECF) assistance program, Avesta reported.

Three new interstate bus routes will connect cities of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the Uzbek media reported Sept. 10.

Tajikistan has established an Export Development Agency, according to the Tajik government decree, Sputnik Tajikistan news agency reported.

Uzbekistan has started to provide benefits to Tajik passenger and freight trains, Tajik news agency Avesta reported citing the press service of Tajik Ministry of Transport.

Tajikistan has increased the export of electricity to Uzbekistan by almost four times, Tajik media reported citing Monitoring and early report in Tajikistan.

Tajikistan increased electricity exports to Uzbekistan from the second half of the year, Asia-Plus reported.

The Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of China, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Colonel-General Xu Qiliang will visit Dushanbe on September 4-6, Asia-Plus reported.