MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law ratifying the intergovernmental agreement with Tajikistan on cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes.
The purpose of the agreement is to create a legal basis for mutually beneficial cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space, as well as the use of the results of this activity. The document also provides for organizational, financial, legal and technical conditions for the implementation of the programs. On the Russian side, the national state space corporation Roscosmos is the competent authority responsible for the implementation of the agreement.
The areas of cooperation are space science and exploration, including astrophysical research and planetary study, remote sensing of the Earth, satellite systems and related technologies, manned space flights and personnel training, provision and use of launch services and other areas.
The agreement was signed in Moscow in June 2023. As noted in the documents attached to the law, the main area of cooperation is the introduction and use of Russian space technologies to solve urgent economic, social and scientific problems, improve the efficiency of managing facilities and resources in various areas of economic activity of the republic of Tajikistan.
The agreement shall enter into force on the date of receipt through diplomatic channels of the last written notification of the parties' fulfillment of all necessary domestic procedures and shall be valid for 10 years. The agreement will be automatically extended every 5 years unless either party notifies the other in writing of its intention to terminate it at least one year before the expiration of its initial or any subsequent period of validity.
Earlier, the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, reported that Tajikistan had completed all domestic legal procedures required for the agreement to enter into force.