A Tajik delegation comprising energy specialists left for Tashkent the other day, where they intend to consider together with their Uzbek counterparts issues of using water and energy resources, and, in particular, those of the River Syrdarya, a source in the Ministry of Energy and Industry of Tajikistan has told Asia-Plus.
The delegation is led by the head of the ministry’s department of energy policy, Abdullo Qurbonov.

Many Tajik experts link these talks with remarks by Uzbek President Islom Karimov at the latest summit of the SCO [the Shanghai Cooperation Organization] in Bishkek.

We recall that Karimov, in particular, said that certain countries in the region wished to use cross-border rivers only in their own interests, and that decisions concerning the use of these rivers, including in the construction of hydroelectric power stations, had to take into account the interests of other countries.