DUSHANBE , January 17, Asia-Plus - On January 14, an enlarged meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Tajikistan (SPT) led by Mirhusein Narziyev was held in Dushanbe to discuss the Central Executive Committee’s report on the work carried out in 2005 and tasks set for 2006.  

Leader of this wing of the SPT, Mirhusein Narziyev, has told Asia-Plus that the participants at the meeting also discussed preparations for the forthcoming 7 ^th congress of the party and participation of the party in Tajikistan ’s November 2006 presidential elections.  According to him, a working group was set up for making changes and addenda to the party’s program and the meeting endorsed events to mark the 10 ^th anniversary of the establishment of the Socialist Party of Tajikistan.  

“The meeting made a decision that the party will field a candidate in the presidential elections,” Mr. Narziyev said.     

It is to be noted that in 2004, Tajikistan’s Ministry of Justice registered as the Socialist Party of Tajikistan its wing led by Abduhalim Ghafforov, an official with the Tajik Ministry of Education, during the 2005 parliamentary elections in Tajikistan the Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER) refused an application by Narziyev’s wing of the SPT for registering its candidates for the elections.