00:05Tajikistan is one of the most exciting places of the world not only for tourism but as a business
00:10destination. In Dushanbe and towns and cities across Tajikistan 35 years of independence was
00:20celebrated nationwide with three days of parade ceremony and celebration marking the occasion.
00:25You can hear it before you can say it the sound of a parade 100,000 strong.
00:32This isn't a story about looking back though it's a nation with its eyes fixed
00:36firmly on what comes next an ambition starts at the top of government.
00:59In the last 25 years, the war and the war and the war are being set to be established by
01:09the
01:09war. The war and the war and the war and the war and the war are being set to be
01:25achieved by
01:25its leaders to its people, the message stays the same, an eagerness to be understood both
01:30at home and abroad.
02:11Thank you very much.
02:27It's a mindset shared by those shaping Tajikistan's economy, from officials in Dushanbe to investors
02:33watching from abroad.
02:55It's going forward from a hydropower plant, right?
02:58It's actually much more than that.
03:00We're refurbishing the Cascade, we're refurbishing Kairakum, HPP up there in Khujand.
03:06It's potential the government's own figures back up to.
03:09Numbers have put real weight behind the ambition.
03:12Today, Tajikistan is in Japan, in the 8th place, in terms of energy power.
03:20This power of energy power has 5 people until today.
03:26There are 95 people from the energy power of energy power of Tajikistan.
03:31In the 9th place, the American University of Japan wants to meet people from the oldest
03:37world.
03:39This is the 10th place.
03:58But ask the head of EBRD's Dushanbe office what he'd tell someone who's never heard of Tajikistan,
04:04and the answer isn't about economics at all.
04:07Those of you who don't know Tajikistan, come here, feel the friendship.
04:13That's not only a slogan, the Tajiks live it.
04:15It is a super hospitable country.
04:17A lot of culture and the beauty of the mountains and the landscapes here are just astonishing.
04:24It's a welcome as genuine as anything on show here.
04:27The celebrations have closed with a concert for the new National Stadium.
04:31Tens of thousands more turning out for one final night of festivities.
04:36This evening felt nice all day and showed itself without far more than spectacle.
04:41It's been about identity, about unity, about a nation choosing to tell its own story on its own terms.
04:49Building a strong legacy for the future.
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