On March 10 the delegation of Turkmenistan plans to arrive in Kabul to promote the TAPI project. Reports Nebit-Gaz with reference to the words of the Acting Minister of Mining and Oil of Afghanistan Shahabuddin Delaware on the website of the news agency TOLO news.

Delaware noted, that Afghanistan is fully prepared for the implementation of the TAPI project and will do everything possible to resume work in the near future.

“There used to be a security problem, but now security in Afghanistan is fully ensured, and TAPI partners are aware of this,” the official said.

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline with a capacity of 33 billion cubic meters of gas per year should run from the Turkmen “Galkynysh” field through the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar, the Pakistani Quetta and

Multan to the city of Fazilka in western India. On the Turkmen section, construction began in December 2015, and the Afghan section of the gas pipeline was laid in February 2018.

ADB, EBRD, IDB, Saudi Fund for Development and other organizations announced their intention to participate in financing TAPI. The total cost of the project will be 8-10 billion USD.

Earlier we reported, that the delegation from Afghanistan, headed by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi visited Ashgabat in January this year. During this visit, the implementation of TAPI and other joint projects were discussed.

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