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Ashgabat, Kabul sign TAPI agreement - UPI.com
Ashgabat, Kabul sign TAPI agreement
Published: Aug. 31, 2010 at 9:18 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Delegates from Turkmenistan and Afghanistan met in Kabul to sign an agreement on a natural gas pipeline to Pakistan and India, the Turkmen government said.
A 1,043-mile pipeline would move gas from the Dauletabad gas field in Turkmenistan to consumers in Pakistan and India after transiting Afghanistan. Turkmenistan holds more than 40 trillion cubic feet of gas in its Dauletabad gas field.
Ashgabat said a delegation from the Turkmen government met with leaders in Kabul to sign the agreement on the multinational pipeline project, the Trend news agency reports.
Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, the Afghan economic minister, said his country has "great interest" in cooperating with Ashgabat on the project's construction. Both sides agreed the project would contribute to stability in war-torn Afghanistan with its economic benefits.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov had said Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to discuss the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's 65th session scheduled for September at U.N. headquarters in New York.
The Turkmen delegation heads next to Islamabad and New Delhi to discuss the project.
The Asian Development Bank financed a feasibility study for TAPI in 2005 despite the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
Ashgabat, Kabul sign TAPI agreement
Published: Aug. 31, 2010 at 9:18 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Delegates from Turkmenistan and Afghanistan met in Kabul to sign an agreement on a natural gas pipeline to Pakistan and India, the Turkmen government said.
A 1,043-mile pipeline would move gas from the Dauletabad gas field in Turkmenistan to consumers in Pakistan and India after transiting Afghanistan. Turkmenistan holds more than 40 trillion cubic feet of gas in its Dauletabad gas field.
Ashgabat said a delegation from the Turkmen government met with leaders in Kabul to sign the agreement on the multinational pipeline project, the Trend news agency reports.
Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, the Afghan economic minister, said his country has "great interest" in cooperating with Ashgabat on the project's construction. Both sides agreed the project would contribute to stability in war-torn Afghanistan with its economic benefits.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov had said Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to discuss the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's 65th session scheduled for September at U.N. headquarters in New York.
The Turkmen delegation heads next to Islamabad and New Delhi to discuss the project.
The Asian Development Bank financed a feasibility study for TAPI in 2005 despite the ongoing war in Afghanistan.