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Kuwait Fund to finance new road

    ISLAMABAD

    The Kuwaiti Fund of the Arab Economic Development Bank agreed on Wednesday to grant a credit of over US $16 million to help restore and develop Tajikistan’s ailing infrastructure, reported ITAR-TASS.

    The agreement was signed between the Tajik Transport Minister Abdudzhalom Salimov and a director of the Kuwaiti Fund, Hesham Al-Wekayam who is on a working visit to Dushanbe.

    The loan will be used to finance construction of a 38 kilometer motorway which will connect Dushanbe and eastern Tajikistan with the mountainous region of Gorno Badakshan, which is regularly cut off from the rest of the country in winter.

    Al-Wekayam said that this was the first Kuwaiti loan to Tajikistan, and the Fund was considering a number of other projects relating to the restoration and development of the country’s infrastructure, it was reported.

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