DUSHANBE, October 26, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- A number of interstate agreements have been signed in Dushanbe today.

According to the Tajik MFA information department, Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi and Mr. Stephen Nellen, Swiss Ambassador to Tajikistan (with residence in Astana), signed a number of documents on bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Switzerland.

They reportedly signed an agreement on implementation of paid labor activity by persons accompanying members of diplomatic missions, consular institutions and permanent representative offices, a protocol on exchange of the instruments of ratification of the convention on avoidance of double taxation, as well as presentation of Tajik MFA’s note on implementation of domestic procedures on an agreement on mutual protection of investments.