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U.S. ANNOUNCES CONSTRUCTION OF MILITARY TRAINING CENTER IN TAJIKISTAN
Baku, August 9 (AZERTAC). U.S. will begin to build an army training center in western Tajikistan in autumn this year, said the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe.
After the signing of the intergovernmental agreement as early as this autumn in the mountain town Karatag about 45 km from Dushanbe, construction will begin a training center for Sun A preliminary draft of the center is estimated at 10 million dollars, Itar-Tass reports.
“The owners of this center will Tajik military, not American,” - emphasized the U.S. Embassy. Construction of the Centre is carried out in the framework of military-technical cooperation between Tajikistan and the United States.
Through a cooperative program in Tajikistan was built 1200-meter-long bridge across the Panj River border, several pogranzastav and customs at the border with Afghanistan have been renovated and equipped with modern communication facilities, financed the construction of the south of the country`s anti-terrorist center Defense.