DUSHANBE, January 8, Asia-Plus  -- The board (Shuro) of Tajikistan’s lower chamber (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament considered a bill requiring an establishment of the ombudsman institution in Tajikistan at a January 7 meeting presided over by the first deputy speaker Safar Safarov.   

Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, said that the board had also considered amendments to the laws on courts, the constitutional court, Tajik citizenship, national budget for 2008 as well as a bill on adoption of the administrative code. 

Some of these issues will be considered at the sitting of the fourth session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the third convocation that will be held within the next few days, the spokesman said.