Tajik, Afghan central electoral commission heads discuss cooperation issues

DUSHANBE, January 12, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- On Wednesday January 11, Shermuhammad Shohiyon, the head of Tajikistan’s Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER), met here with Fazl Ahmad Ma’navi, the head of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC).

In the course of the talks, Shohiyon reportedly briefed his Afghan counterpart on the activity of the CCER and expressed interest in establishing cooperation with the IEC.

Ma’navi, for his part, noted that the IEC was relatively new institution in Afghanistan and it needed to study experience of Tajikistan’s CCER in organizing and holding elections and referenda, the source said.