Kabul – The foreign minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov came to Kabul today morning on Saturday, (October 30).
The acting foreign minister of the Taliban Amir Khan Muttaqi and the spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid have welcomed Rashid Meredov with his delegation at Kabul International Airport.
Earlier, it had been said that Turkmenistan’s diplomatic delegation would come for the purpose of the TAPI project to Kabul.
Meanwhile, the construction plan of the TAPI gas pipeline project was proposed in the 1990s among the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan in order to transfer natural gas from the gas fields of Turkmenistan to Afghanistan and Pakistan; then, India expressed interest to have membership of the project. Now, the project is supposed to be implanted with the participation of these four countries.
The total length of the pipeline is 1,814 km which 816 km of that is on the soil of Afghanistan and it passes through Herat, Kandahar, Helmand, Farah, and Nimruz provinces. Therefore, with the completion of this project, 11 billion cubic meters will be transferred in the first phase and then 33 billion cubic meters of gas in the next 30 years.
