Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, March 28
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline can become a starting point for the real integration of Afghanistan into the global economic system, the online newspaper Oil and Gas Complex of Turkmenistan reported.
Turkmenistan’s Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy Merdan Bayramdurdyev spoke about this at an international conference dedicated to the development of Pakistan’s cooperation with Central Asian countries.
“The TAPI project, in addition to the obvious economic benefits and dividends for all its participants, can become a starting point for the real integration of Afghanistan into the global economic system as an equal partner, active participant and subject of modern global economic ties,” the deputy minister said.
The TAPI project is designed to ensure energy security in Central and South Asia.
Total length of the TAPI gas pipeline will be 1,840 kilometers. Construction of the Turkmen section of the TAPI gas pipeline began in December 2015.
Construction of the Afghan section of the TAPI gas pipeline started Feb. 23, 2018.
