20 March 2009 BBC Monitoring Central Asia
Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik Avesta website on 20 March
Dushanbe, 20 March: A ceremony to sign a cooperation agreement between the Tajik Chamber of Commerce and Industry [TCCI] and the Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP) of the Aga Khan Foundation took place in Dushanbe yesterday.
A source in the TCCI’s press centre told Avesta that the agreement had been signed by the chairman of the TCCI, Sharif Said, and the general manager of the MSDSP, Kishvar Abdulalishoyev.
Sharif Said thinks that in conditions of the global financial crisis the role of small and medium-sized businesses is becoming decisive in developing trade and economic cooperation.
“It is happening because of the fact that small and medium-sized enterprises adapt to market conditions more easily, they are less bureaucratic and more responsible for products they manufacture,” the TCCI’s chairman thinks.
For his part, Abdulalishoyev expressed his satisfaction with joint efforts made by the TCCI and the MSDSP programme to support small and medium-sized business.
Source: Avesta website, Dushanbe, in Russian 0934 gmt 20 Mar 09
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