Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Afghanistan

Talks On Turkmen Pipeline Set To Start

Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov (right) with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (file photo) (CTK)

13 February 2006 -- Energy officials from Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan arrived in Turkmenistan today for talks on a pipeline to export Turkmen natural gas.

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February 13, 2006

The talks are due to start tomorrow. The pipeline would cost an estimated $3.5 billion to build and would have an annual capacity of 33 billion cubic meters.

The 1,680 kilometer pipeline project has been on hold since the 1990s, when the Taliban movement came to power in Afghanistan.

Turkmenistan is the second-biggest gas producer in the former Soviet Union after Russia.

(AP)

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