DUSAHNBE, September 16, Asia-Plus - Tajikistan’s Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER) will set up 25 polling stations for the upcoming presidential election outside Tajikistan.

A meeting of the CCER presided over by its chairman Mirzoali Boltuyev was held on September 15. 

According to Muhibullo Dodojonov, a spokesman for the CCER, meeting participants decided to establish 25 polling stations in 15 countries around the world. “Polling stations will be established in eight cities of the Russian Federation (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, Kemerovo, Perm, Yekaterinburg and Volgograd), Belarus (Minsk), China (Beijing), Afghanistan (Kabul and Mazor-i Sharif), India (New Delhi), Pakistan (Islamabad), Iran (Tehran), Germany (Berlin), Austria (Vienna), Belgium (Brussels), and the United States (Washington and New York),” the CCER official said. 

He said the CCER meeting also formed district electoral commissions, whose members will be publicized in the parliament’s official paper “Sadoi Mardum” next week.