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27 Jan 2022

In their first-ever summit [25 Jan], India, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyz Republic have decided to form a joint working group on Afghanistan, while agreeing to a “common approach” when dealing with the Taliban

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It was decided at the meeting to focus on connectivity and trade amongst the nations and to resume talks for the proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project.
According to Reenat Sandhu, secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, the president of Uzbekistan proposed the resumption of talks for the proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project, underlining its importance.
“It is understood that discussions are ongoing at the level of consortium partners with respect to the business principles of this project,” she told the media at a special briefing on the summit.
Earlier this month, Turkmenistan announced that it will give a renewed push to the long-pending TAPI project in March and has been also discussing its prospects with the Taliban regime in Kabul.
The Taliban government has also said it will deploy 30,000 troops to carry out the work on laying the TAPI gas pipeline.
Conceived in the 1990s, the TAPI project entails setting up of a 1,814-km long trans-country pipeline. Through it, it is projected that India will be receiving 33 billion cubic meters of gas from Turkmenistan.

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