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TAPI project has special significance for Afghan economy

Oil&Gas Materials 19 April 2012 14:36 (UTC +04:00)
The construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline will be of great importance to the Afghan economy, deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Javid Ludin said at an international meeting in Ashgabat, dedicated to the restoration of peace in Afghanistan, Turkmen media said on Thursday
TAPI project has special significance for Afghan economy

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, April 19 /Trend H.Hasanov/

The construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline will be of great importance to the Afghan economy, deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Javid Ludin said at an international meeting in Ashgabat, dedicated to the restoration of peace in Afghanistan, Turkmen media said on Thursday.

A senior representative of Kabul noted the successful development of Turkmen-Afghan relations in the economic sector, transport and communications, energy.

"All these projects have great economic benefit, not only for the Turkmen and Afghan people, but for the entire region," Ludin said, the state news service Turkmen Dovlet khabarlary reported.

The report also said that Turkmenistan has supplied electricity to Afghanistan for several years. The construction of a major boundary energy system will allow an increase in the exports of Turkmen electricity to Afghanistan by five times.

The preparatory work on the laying of the Atamyrat-Ymamnazar-Akin-Andkhoy railway is being held now in accordance with the framework agreement signed between the two governments during the official visit of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Turkmenistan in May 2011.

It was reported earlier that President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov and the Minister of Afghanistan's mining resources Vahidulla Shahrani noted the international attention and interest of many countries and companies willing to participate in the TAPI project in early April indicated during a meeting in Ashgabat.

The total length of TAPI is 1735 kilometres. 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.

The capacity will be 33 billion cubic meters of gas per year. At this stage negotiations are being held for the sale of fuel, the formation of a consortium and providing funding and security, especially through volatile Afghanistan.

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