Electricity supplies from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan continue in accordance with the existing contracts, the MFA Turkmenistan announced today.
As is known, Turkmen electricity is supplied to Afghanistan in several directions, which allows providing electricity to almost all the northern provinces of Afghanistan, the western and north-western regions of the country, including the provinces of Herat, Badghis, Jouzjan, Balkh, Faryab, as well as the cities of Mazar-i-Sharif, Shibergan, Herat, and others.
At present, at the initiative of Turkmenistan, the implementation of the project for the construction of a high-voltage power transmission line with a capacity of 500 kV along the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan route is in the active phase, the MFA press service notes.