The State Duma of the Russian Federation ratified on 21 October 2009 the Russian-Tajik intergovernmental agreement on the establishment and operation of the Pamir-Chacaltaya International Scientific Research Centre.
On 30 October 2009, the Federation Council on 257 plenary meeting approved the ratification of this agreement.
The Tajik Parliament ratified the Agreement earlier on 12 February 2009.

The Pamir-2009 scientific mission is successfully accomplished:

• the Ak-Arkhar research site is restored including living quarters and manufacturing premises, a shed with experimental setup inside it, a diesel-generator house, a bath-house, electromechanical lifting and transporting equipment, an electric power line and an electricity supply network, an access road;
• a full inventory auditing of the research site movables and immovables transferring to the Center as initial contributions by Sides in compliance with Article 7 of the Intergovernmental Agreement is carried out;  
• a 2-storied deep X-ray emulsion chamber with 2.5 m air gap and 36 m² in area is assembled and put under exposition (the main goal of the launched experiment supported by the Russian Federal Agency of Science and Innovation within state contract №02.518.11.7160 is a study of penetrating hadronic component of cosmic rays at mountain altitudes which may be of the charm particle production origin or due to presence of strange matter particles, i.e., strangelets within cosmic rays; a similar experiment, as concerns to the goal and the type of  experimental setup, is planned in CERN at  LHC with CMS-CASTOR calorimeter); the total number of X-Ray films of RT-6F type under the exposition amounts 625 m²;
• a conservation of the research site equipment for a winter period and arranging of wintering of a security guard are fulfilled.

Pamir-Chacalataya ISRC announces about arranging of the Pamirs scientific expedition in 2009 and invites strong and healthy persons, having experience and skills in renovation and construction jobs at high altitude conditions, to participate in the scientific expedition. 

Main goals of the Pamirs 2009 expedition is a reconstruction of manufacturing premises and living quarters, as well as other infrastructure objects of experimental site situated in Ak-Arkhar gorge of the Murghob district of Mountain Badakhshan Autonomous Region of the Republic of Tajikistan. This reconstruction will make it possible to restart experimental studies of superhigh energy cosmic rays at Pamirs mountain altitudes according to the ISRC Scientific program in the framework of a broad international  cooperation.

Dates of  the Pamirs 2009 expedition: July-August 2009. 

Contact information: borisov@sci.lebedev.ru, tel.+7(499)132-64-16, Alexander S. Borisov 

The first meeting of the Council of Plenipotentiary Representatives (CPR) of Governments of the member states of the Pamir-Chacaltaya International Scientific Research Center was held on March 25th, 2009 in the new biulding of the RAS Presidium in Moscow and was chaired by Academician V. A. Matveev, the Academician-Secretary of the Physics Sciences Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Press release about the results of the first CPR meeting of the Pamir-Chacaltaya ISRC