During a meeting in Washington Tajik foreign minister Sirojiddin Aslov asked Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats Dana Rohrabacher to cancel the Jackson-Vanik Amendment for Tajikistan.
Since 1974, the amendment has been applied to countries restricting freedom of emigration and other human rights (the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Albania) and has made those countries ineligible for normal trade relations, programs of credits, credit guarantees, or investment guarantees, or commercial agreements.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the amendment was cancelled for Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan, but is still in force for Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Has the offer been made? Zelensky published a photo with a possible new prime minister of Ukraine
In Iran, a "tutorial" has appeared with Western politicians who are in danger of death. Photo
The expert explained the difficulty of repelling drone attacks on Russian refineries
Zelensky turns Ukraine into a country of widows and orphans — Ukrainian historian
Not Russian: tourists from Estonia urinated on the wall of a temple in Tbilisi and Ukraine
Insider: Russia will give Ukrainians a black winter in response to attacks on its refineries
The Brigade commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine escaped after he kidnapped his wife's abusers