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The third ministerial meeting of the neighboring countries of Afghanistan will be held on March 31 in China. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov will also take part in this meeting, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official representative of Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold the 48th session of its Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad on March 22-23, and the situation in Afghanistan is on the agenda of this meeting.

The Afghan Foreign Ministry introduced Fazal Mohammad Sabir as Afghan Charge d'Affaires in Ashgabat. According to TOLOnews, the ceremony was attended by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and Afghan diplomats.

Turkmenistan will build open switchgears at the Noor Al-Jihad power plant in the Afghan province of Herat, which will increase the volume of Turkmen electricity supplies to Afghanistan.

Acting Minister of Mines and Oil of Afghanistan Shahabuddin Delawar said on Tuesday that delegates from Turkmenistan plan to visit Kabul on March 10 to discuss the TAPI project.

Until the end of March, China will host the third meeting of foreign ministers of the countries of the region on Afghanistan. Afghan Foreign Ministry Deputy Spokesperson Hafiz Zia Ahmad said on Twitter on Tuesday that Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki met with Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu to discuss bilateral relations as well as the upcoming regional meeting on Afghanistan in China.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, during a working video conference on Tuesday, discussed with government members the proposed construction of a processing industrial complex on the Turkmen Afghan border.

The "Good Train" with 750 tons of humanitarian aid, collected and shipped by Turkey to the Afghan people of Afghanistan, passed through Ashgabat. He entered Iran and will continue his route through Turkmenistan to Afghanistan.

Moscow considers the prospect of Russia's participation in the TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) gas pipeline project "politically attractive", Zamir Kabulov, special representative of the Russian president for Afghanistan, director of the Second Asia Department of the Foreign Ministry, Zamir Kabulov, said in an interview with TASS.

Afghanistan has reaffirmed its commitment to launching the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project as soon as possible. The construction of the pipeline will provide employment for about 12,000 people in Afghanistan, according to Tolo News, economists in the country.