Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Your Excellency, President Emomali Rahmon, President of the Republic of Tajikistan. Your Excellency, Davlatali Saidov, Chairman of the State Committee on Investment and Management of State Property. Honorable Ministers. Excellencies. Ladies and Gentlemen
I would like to begin my comments this morning by thanking His Excellency the President for the support he has given this institution and having told us that it will remain fully occupied for the next two years! And I should warn our financing agencies that I will use that excuse to negotiate even harder than before for good terms for our future projects in Tajikistan!
We join today at a special ceremony of inauguration and dedication – and I am so pleased that we can share this moment together with all of you.
It is a time for thinking and talking about the exciting future, as we launch a new facility that will be central to the growth of this community and this country in the days and years to come.
But I am also thinking today about the past – both the near past and the more distant past which are tied so intimately with today’s ceremony – and with all the good things which we hope will come from it.
Ismailimail 