DUSHAHNBE, March 29, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik Deputy Foreign Minister, Nizomiddin Zohidov, yesterday met here with Mr. Giles de Kerchove, the European Union Counter-terrorism Coordinator, according to the Tajik MFA information department.

In the course of the talks, the sides discussed a broad range of issues related bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and the European Union, regional security and cooperation in combating terrorism, religious extremism and drug trafficking.  They also considered some international issues being of mutual interest.

Milana Lickova and Tim Johns, political advisers, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, as well as Ambassador Eduard Auer, Head of the EU Delegation to Tajikistan, also attended the meeting.