Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 36

6-Sep-2010

CASPIAN

Turkmenistan And Afghanistan Sign Pipeline Framework Agreement

Bayramgeldy Nedirov, Turkmenistans Minister of Oil and Gas and Mineral Resources and his Afghan counterpart, Vahidulla Shahrani, signed in Ashgabat on 31 August a framework agreement for the construction of a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline (TAPI). TAPI was first proposed in the 1990s, but has since been largely forgotten due to the worsening security situation in the...