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Dushanbe and Yerevan agree to convene their economic commission

Rahmon and Pashinyan used the SCO sidelines in Bishkek to line up the next session of the Tajik-Armenian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation, with business forums to follow. No documents were signed.

Dushanbe and Yerevan agree to convene their economic commission

The readout from Dushanbe's side runs through trade, culture, science, education and youth policy, and lands on process: convene the commission, widen contacts between business circles, hold forums. Rahmon's published line is that bilateral trade needs support and business contacts need widening.

โ€œThe test is a date for the session, and none was named.โ€

Rahmon's Bishkek diary also included the UN secretary-general, with water and glaciers at the center of that readout. Yerevan's summit week has run heavy on exactly this kind of direct regional work.

The pairing is the point. A Central Asian and a South Caucasus capital did direct economic business with no third power in the room. The test is a date for the session, and none was named.