Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, April 20 / Trend, H. Hasanov /
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov received Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, the Turkmen government said on Friday.
"Another topic of discussion was the interaction in the strategic fuel and energy sector, and specifically - the promotion of an grand project of construction a transnational gas pipeline Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI), the implementation of which, supposedly, will have special importance for the whole region," the report says.
In addition, the sides talked about measures to export Turkmen electricity to Pakistan via Afghanistan, use of the transit potential of Turkmenistan, which is located on the main transport junction linking Europe and Asia, the development of mutually beneficial cooperation in the construction industry and agriculture.
The report also says that at the meeting the sides exchanged views on a wide range of issues of interstate cooperation, which has entered a new level that meets mutual interests thanks to efforts of the parties in recent years.
The basic document for the promotion of TAPI project is the Ashgabat interstate agreement of the state parties on the commencement of the practical implementation of the TAPI project signed at the end of 2010. The agenda includes issues of transit payment and security of the project.
The designed capacity of the pipeline is for around 33 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
Buyers are the gas companies of Pakistan and India.
According to the project, the highway should reach out to the largest Galkynysh gas field in Turkmenistan through the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar, to reach its final point at the village of Fazilka on the border between India and Pakistan.