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TAPI project to provide energy security: India

30 October 2013 17:21 (UTC+04:00)
TAPI project to provide energy security: India

By Aynur Jafarova

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project aims at ensuring the energy security of the member countries, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has said.

"I am pleased to note our fruitful cooperation in the implementation of the TAPI project which is meant to ensure the energy security of our countries," Mukherjee said in his congratulatory letter to his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov on the occasion of celebrating the 22nd anniversary of Turkmenistan's independence.

The TAPI pipeline project with the designed capacity of 33 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year will extend from the Galkhynysh field in Turkmenistan through the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar, reaching its final point in a settlement on the Pakistani-Indian border.

The basic document for promoting the TAPI project is the Ashgabat intergovernmental agreement on the start of the actual implementation of the TAPI project, signed in late 2010 by the four participating countries.

Earlier, Berdymukhamedov noted that the project on the construction of the TAPI gas pipeline acquires more significance and real features of practical implementation.

"This pipeline will make a real contribution to the establishment of international energy cooperation, and will be an effective stabilizing factor that has a positive impact on the entire situation and will give additional stability to the entire system of political and economic ties in the Asian continent," he said.

Experts believe that TAPI is not only a regional project for the transportation of Turkmen gas, but also a global project. They believe that the implementation of the project will strengthen Turkmenistan's independence, and its gas supplies to world markets will increase significantly.

Furthermore, observers say that the main benefit of the project is an opportunity to promote stability in Afghanistan, and its implementation can contribute to the rehabilitation process in the post-war country, because it will create job opportunities and provide Afghanistan with guaranteed income from gas transit.

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