DUSHANBE, January 17, Asia-Plus - Fifth-year students at Tajik National University, Sirojiddin Mahkamboyev and Dilshod Mulloyev, have been recognized winners of the national moot court competition for the 2006 Philip C. Jessup Cup that ended in Dushanbe on January 15.    

Mr. Frank Hespe, Rule of Law Liaison, the American Bar Association/Central European & Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) in Tajikistan, noted in his interview with that the main objective of the competition was in assisting law students in forming an idea of how to make speech in court and dispute interests of that or other person.  

This year, seven teams participated in the competition: four teams fro Khujand and three teams from Dushanbe .    

Now the competition winners will represent Tajikistan in the International Philip C. Jessup Cup Competition that will be held in Washington from March 27 to April 1 this year.    

All participants in the competition were given certificates.  

We will recall that the national moot court competition for the 2006 Philip C. Jessup Cup will be held in Dushanbe on January 14-15.  Teams comprising law students and post-graduate students representing faculties of law at higher educational institutions of the republic took part in the competition.  The competition was staged by the ABA/CEELI under support of the United States Agency for International Development and the International Law Students Association (ILSA).