Turkmenistan And ADB Discuss Implementation Of TAPI Project
Date
6/24/2022 4:09:25 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 24. Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the newly-appointed
Country Director of the Permanent Mission of the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) in Turkmenistan Artur Andrysiak, Trend reports citing the
Foreign Affairs Ministry of Turkmenistan.
During the meeting, the parties discussed the implementation of
the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline
construction project in the context of the development of regional
and international energy cooperation.
Furthermore, they exchanged views on the current state of
relations between Turkmenistan and the ADB and their prospects.
Energy, industry, transport, trade and banking were named as areas
of joint work.
The TAPI pipeline will run from the giant Galkynysh gas field in
southern Turkmenistan through the Afghan cities of Herat and
Kandahar, Pakistan's Quetta and Multan to the city of Fazilka in
western India.
It is expected that the pumping capacity of the pipeline will
amount to 33 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.
The construction of TAPI began in 2015, and in September 2020,
representatives of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan signed a memorandum
on the selection of land plots for the pipeline route.
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