Turkmenistan and Afghanistan to launch joint railway project
The Afghan Railways Department (ARA) reported that during the meeting of the head of this department with the Ambassador of Turkmenistan, an agreement was reached to provide the other side with land for the expansion of the joint railway.
According to ARA, Bakht-ur-Rahman Sharafat, head of the railway department of the Taliban government, discussed with Hoja Ovezov, Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Kabul, the issue of transferring land for the implementation of a joint railway project.
According to the information, the railway administration of Afghanistan will provide Turkmenistan with land to begin practical work on the construction of canopies and new sublines on the transit route of the Herat-Turgundi crossing.
The report says that a commission has been sent to Herat province in western Afghanistan to determine the site.
On December 16-17, Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov, headed by the delegation of Turkmenistan, made a working trip to Afghanistan, Herat province, where he discussed with the relevant leaders the status of the implementation of TAPI, TAP projects, as well as issues of expanding the railway infrastructure of Afghanistan.
During his trip to Turgundi in the north of Herat, Meredov visited the construction of the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan railway line.
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