The Tajik party has accomplished its obligations on creating an international Persian-language TV channel. The new media enterprise will be jointly ran by Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran.

So far, Tajikistan has allocated premises for the TV company, prepared its charter and developed other relevant legal procedures. However, according to Asadullo Rakhimov, chairman of the Tajik Broadcasting Committee under the government, Afghanistan and Iran are lagging behind in fulfilling their obligations. The tripartite agreement on the Persian TV channel was reached February 2009.

Iran has been failing to ship certain broadcasting equipment and send its engineers for the installation, as it had been agreed at the beginning.

It should be noted that negotiations on launching a joint TV company lasted for two years. The formal agreement was reached only after the tripartite meeting of foreign ministries in Dushanbe in March 2008.

NANSMIT Monitoring Service