DUSHANBE, May 15, 2013, Asia-Plus -- A roundtable to discuss the role of Tajikistan in the Eurasian development is taking place in Dushanbe today.

Organized by the Center for Geopolitical Studies at Russian-Tajik Slavic University (RTSU) and the International Development Movement (Russia), the meeting is discussing issues related to the role and place of Tajikistan in Eurasian development through organization, jointly with Russia, of new industrialization and a system of strategic investment projects in Tajikistan.

The roundtable has brought together representatives from Tajik governmental bodies, Russian diplomatic mission in Tajikistan as well as Tajik, Russian and international experts.

The album, Strategic Investment Projects for Tajikistan and Central Asia, worked out by the investment group (Russia), will be presented on the sidelines of the roundtable.  This album is reportedly the second stage of the Plan of Yuri Krupnov for Tajikistan.

We will recall that chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development (Russia) Yuri Krupnov, who is also the head of the International Development Movement, presented his plan of raising the economy of Tajikistan at a roundtable in Dushanbe on September 26, 2012.

In early April this year, Krupnov noted that the aggregate volume of investment for Tajikistan will amount to some 12 billion U.S. dollars.