U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Franklin Huddle has signed two agreements on assistance to Tajikistan. One agreement involves the award of grants totaling $56,000 to 12 nongovernmental organizations under the embassy\'s democracy-support program. The total amount of the program for the year is $100,000, some of which is going to independent media and to educational projects, including teaching democratic principles to local administrators. The second agreement involved the delivery of $3.2 million of U.S. food aid to Tajikistan. (Interfax)