KABUL: The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that improvements have been made on the implementation of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project and the implementation of this project will be discussed on its 21st summit, being held in Kabul.
Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Shakib Mostaghni said that representatives from the mines and petroleum ministries of Pakistan, India and Turkmenistan will be discussing the implementation of TAPI project with their Afghan counterparts in the summit.
Meanwhile, Afghan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum spokesman Rafiullah Sediqi said that this 30-year-long project will provide job opportunities to Afghans and the country will be able to generate millions of dollars revenue.
Turkmenistan-Afghanistan- Pakistan-India TAPI is an 1800-kilometre-long pipeline will initially deliver 27 billion cubic meters of natural gas out of which two billion cubic meters will be allowed to Afghanistan and 12.5 billion cubic meters to each Pakistan and India every year.
The capacity will be increased to 33 billion cubic meters after the initial stages with Afghanistan also getting more than two billion cubic meters of the gas. The project is developed by the Asian Development Bank.
