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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.

On Saturday, Afghan Acting Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi assured a senior Pakistani delegation led by National Security Adviser (NSA) Moid Yusuf that Afghan land would not be used against neighbors, including Pakistan, Pakistani Dawn news agency reported.

Afghanistan has signed an agreement with Turkmenistan on a transmission line project for the newly commissioned Nur al-Jihad substation in western Afghanistan, the Afghan energy company De Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat (DABS) reported on Friday.

Figures provided by the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) show that trade between Afghanistan and the three Central Asian states - Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - has increased in the current (solar) year.

A meeting of Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov with Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan Amir Khan Mottaki was held in Ashgabat. According to the press service of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry, the foreign ministers of the two neighboring states discussed the development and strengthening of partnership in a wide range of areas.