DUSHANBE, July 11, 2014, Asia-Plus – Tajikistan and Russia are in disagreement over the use of the Pamir-Chacaltaya International Scientific and Research Center (ISRC).

President of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Farhod Rahimi, noted this yesterday at a news conference in Dushanbe on July 10.  He did not give the details.

“We have discussed this issue both in Dushanbe and in Moscow but disagreements remained,” said Rahimi.  “Despite this, our specialists are continuing to work at the Center changing films necessary to register the smallest extraterrestrial objects.”

The government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and the Russian Federation on establishment and activity of the Pamir-Chacaltaya ISRC was signed in Dushanbe on August 29, 2008.

The Center was established by the Governments of Tajikistan and the Russian Federation to conduct nuclear and astrophysical researches of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays using advantage of an infrastructure of Ak-Arkhar high-altitude scientific site at the Pamirs and located on it a unique X-ray emulsion chamber set-up of Pamir Chacaltaya international emulsion chamber experiment, as well as to implement new projects on comprehensive studies of cosmic rays at mountain altitudes with currently operating and newly created experimental set-ups.

The Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) ratified the agreement on February 11, 2009 and Russia’s lower house (State Duma) of parliament ratified the agreement in November 2009.