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Turkmenistan stands for Afghanistan's integration into regional economic projects

Business Materials 20 November 2019 18:18 (UTC +04:00)
Turkmenistan stands for Afghanistan's integration into regional economic projects

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, Nov. 20

By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:

Turkmenistan stands for regional cooperation with Afghanistan in big infrastructure projects, Trend reports referring to the Turkmen Dovlet Khabarlary state news agency.

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov raised these issues during a meeting with the heads of the country's oil and gas companies.

Berdimuhamedov emphasized the international importance of the TAPI project in the formation of a new structure of global energy security.

Along the new energy route, power transmission lines and fiber-optic lines will stretch along the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) route, which will be another real step towards the comprehensive integration of the countries participating in the project into the world economic relations system.

The Turkmen president also drew attention to the fact that cooperation in such a strategic sphere as transport, which also has a great potential, is also important.

In the long term, this will allow Afghanistan to join the transit transportation system on a regional and international scale.

Along with the supply of electricity and liquefied natural gas at a low price to Afghanistan, various humanitarian cargoes free of charge, Turkmenistan is building social facilities, in particular, medical and educational facilities in the neighboring country.

Turkmenistan is lobbying for implementation of a number of regional infrastructure projects with the participation of Afghanistan.

In particular, Turkmenistan is working on the implementation of such projects through the Afghan territory as the construction of a railway to Tajikistan and a gas pipeline to Pakistan and India.

The projects on the use of Afghan transit for the supply of Turkmen electricity are also being assessed. Turkmenistan has previously declared its readiness to provide its political space for conducting peace talks on Afghanistan.

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