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Tajikistan: President Renews Push to Create Central Asian Water Consortium
BY KONSTANTIN PARSHIN
The drought that some portions of Central Asia are experiencing these days infused a sense of added urgency into a recent international conference on water management issues held in Dushanbe.

ALMANAC FACTS

Area: 143,001 sq km (55,213 sq mi)
Population: 7,011,556
Capital: Dushanbe 528,600
President: Imomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov
Religion: Sunni Muslim 85%, Shi'a Muslim 5%, other 10%
Life Expectancy: 64.47 years
GDP per capita: $1,000
OSI NATIONAL FOUNDATION OFFICE:

OSI Assistance Foundation - Tajikistan
1 Firdowsi Str.
734 003 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Tel: 992 372 21-19-58; 24-22-75; 243081; 243384
Fax: 992 372 51-01-42
Email: zuhra.halimova@osi.tajik.net
Executive Director: Ms. Zuhra Halimov


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