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A Cyber Café for Dushanbe: Groundbreaking!
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BOULDER AND DUSHANBE STRENGTHEN SISTER CITY TIES WITH CYBER CAFE GROUNDBREAKING DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN. Dushanbe young people will soon have a place to go to get in touch with young people in their sister city. On March 22, Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev, and Boulder-Dushanbe Sister City Committee President Don Mock participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for Boulder's state-of-the-art Cyber Cafe gift to Dushanbe. The people of Boulder, Colorado, will build this Cyber Cafe in return for Dushanbe's gift of the beautiful Tajik Teahouse. The Cyber Cafe will be located in Dushanbe's Firdausi District, set amidst a wooded park. The U.S. Embassy and the cities of Dushanbe and Boulder each donated a handpicked and symbolic tree as part of the groundbreaking ceremony to begin the landscaping. The Cyber Cafe will serve as a technologically advanced cultural center and will be built with money donated directly from the people of Boulder. Ambassador Hoagland remarked at the ceremony, "Dushanbe has never experienced such a burst of construction and development as has begun in recent years," and emphasized that the Cyber Cafe is a "timely and important gift from the people of Boulder, Colorado, to their sister city Dushanbe." Mayor Ubaidulloyev and Mr. Mock praised the long and promising relationship between the two cities, the great history and tradition of Tajikistan, and the benefit expected, especially for the young people of Tajikistan who will visit and use the Cyber Cafe. In 1987 Dushanbe presented Boulder with the material and plans to build an exquisite traditional Tajik Teahouse. This gift was the first of its kind, and in 1998, upon completion, represented the largest gift ever presented to the United States by the entire former Soviet Union. The Tajik Teahouse is famous across the entire United States and visited by thousands of visitors to Boulder each year. The U.S. Embassy expects the Cyber Cafe will fulfill a similarly important cultural role in Dushanbe. |
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On the Occasion of the Cyber Café Groundbreaking |
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Letter to the People of Dushanbe from the President of BDSC
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