The implementation of TAPI project was one of the topics of the telephone conversation held on 25 December between Presidents Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Vladimir Putin.
“I spoke with the president of Turkmenistan today, and he reiterated his plans to build a gas transmission system across Afghanistan and further to its neighbors Pakistan and India.
He invites us to participate.Generally, certain projects are indeed implemented there, and quite successfully, including by Turkmenistan.But we must take a look, of course, at how feasible projects of this kind will be”,— TASS quotes Vladimir Putin.
According to Putin, the appearance in Afghanistan of Islamic State militants that have already begun confrontation with Taliban is an alarming factor, which additionally worsens the situation there.
Let us recall that in November 2017, in the course of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iran, an agreement was reached between “Gazprom” and the Iranian National Oil Company (NIOC) to prepare the feasibility study for the gas pipeline project from Iran to India via Pakistan.
The pipeline Iran-Pakistan-India is a competitor project of TAPI gas pipeline.