DUSHANBE , May 10, Asia-Plus - Issues related to development of labor potential and vocational education are in the center of discussion at an international conference formally titled “Labor Resources and Labor Potential of Central Asia and Russia ” that opened in Moscow today.   

According to information from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the conference is aiming to consider issues of labor migration, increase in productiveness of labor and social stability with regard to demographic situation and prognosis on the labor market.  

The source says Zokir Vazirov, Minister of Labor and Social Security, and Anvar Boboyev, Director of State Migration Service, are representing Tajikistan at this conference.  

“Labor migrants may fill in deficiency of manpower in the Russian Federation , and Russia is interested in recruiting labor migrants from Central Asia ,” said the Asia-plus interlocutor, “At present the main problem is the issue of legalization of labor migrants staying in the Russian Federation .”  

Participants of the conference staged by the “Institute for Eurasian Studies” Foundation and Russia ’s Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs include senior representatives of labor ministries from five Central Asia ’s states and Russia .