Wednesday 5, June 2013
Kabul (BNA) It’s expected that president Karzai visit Ishq Abad in couple of days where he will discuss the topic pertaining construction of Afghan-Tajik-Turkmenistan railway project.
The project that connects Turkmenistan and Tajikistan via Afghanistan and its implementation will lay constructive impacts on trade and commerce relations between the three neighbors.
Meanwhile, the ministry of foreign affairs of Afghanistan has announced that expansion of trade, transit and commerce relations between the neighboring countries with Afghanistan is part of the foreign policy of the current political system. Because, Afghanistan intends to remove mistrusts and political disharmony between the regional countries to pave the ground for regional harmony, trade and transit relations so that socioeconomic development of these countries are preserved. The 4,00 km railway project which starts from Atta Murad region of Turkmenistan passes through provinces of Faryab and Kunduz in Afghanistan and onward it reaches Tajikistan railway rout. It is said that majority of the works have been completed over the project and only some parts of the project that connects Afghanistan to Tajikistan and another part that connect Turkmenistan to Khazer river hasn’t been completed. Minister of foreign affairs Dr. Zalmai Rassoul has described the project as a major attainment and has said that this will support Afghanistan to get access into transit rout in the north and it will help the country to seek solution to trade and transit problems of the country. Commenting on the topic, Janan Mosazai a spokesman to the ministry of foreign affairs of Afghanistan expressed hope that the project is completed soon as it strongly supports Afghanistan to intensify its trade and commerce relations through same transit route. it is said that Tajikistan also strongly support implementation of the trilateral railway project between Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan because currently there are some differences between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and the project will help save transportation between the three states. The project also help the three countries in investment sectors and extraction of natural resources like oil and gas and this will highly support Afghanistan’s economic development. Over the course of history Afghanistan has enjoyed close diplomatic and commercial relations with Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and after passing each day bilateral cooperation between these countries and the three nations extremely requires to expand these ties in economic and commerce sector in the view of current geo politics and geo economic scenario of the world to ensure economic and social prosperity of their people and attain effective reputation in international politics.
