On the morning of May 16, Emomali Rahmon departed on a state visit to China on an aircraft purchased from the government of Mexico for 92 million dollars. According to the press service of the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon left for China to participate in the Summit of Heads of State “China + Central […]
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On the morning of May 16, Emomali Rahmon departed on a state visit to China on an aircraft purchased from the government of Mexico for 92 million dollars.
According to the press service of the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon left for China to participate in the Summit of Heads of State “China + Central Asia”.
He is accompanied on this trip by the “Minister of Foreign Affairs, assistants to the President of the Republic of Tajikistan for foreign relations and economic issues, ministers of economic development and trade, transport, industry and new technologies, the chairman of the State Committee for National Security, chairpersons of committees on television and radio, food security, the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan” and other officials.
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This is the first flight of Emomali Rahmon on the luxurious, expensive presidential aircraft, which was purchased in April of this year from the government of Mexico for 92 million dollars. On May 15, the plane was delivered to Dushanbe, where it was repainted and adorned with the emblem and flag of Tajikistan.
Mexican media report that the president of that country is happy to have gotten rid of this aircraft, the operation and maintenance of which were too costly for the country.
The luxurious Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was ordered back in 2012 during the presidency of Felipe Calderón. The aircraft arrived in Mexico in February 2016, when Enrique Peña Nieto was in charge of the country.
The aircraft is designed for only 80 people and is equipped with a full presidential suite with a private bathroom.
Experts claim that even one trip on this aircraft can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. That is why the president of Mexico decided to put it up for sale.
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The current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, came to power in 2018 and refused to fly on the luxurious private plane. Even during his election campaign, he stated that he would sell the presidential plane and use the proceeds to build important facilities.
The president of Mexico believed that the plane was purchased with money stolen from the people. Immediately after the sale, he announced that the proceeds would go towards building two hospitals in the poorest states of Mexico – Guerrero and Oaxaca.
