President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received Minister of Peroleum and Natural Resources of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mr. Jam Kamal Khan, who had arrived in Ashgabat to attend the Steering Committee meeting on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project.
Emphasizing the farsightedness and constructiveness of the international initiatives put forward by the President of Turkmenistan with the aim to establish the modern architecture of the global energy safety, the guest expressed deep gratitude to the Turkmen leader for holding regular meetings of the TAPI Steering Committee and Working Group as well as for attracting attention of the world business circles to the project of the new pipeline.
Underlining the significance of the construction of the TAPI transcontinental pipeline, Mr. Jam Kamal Khan reaffirmed the high interest of his country in the early commissioning of the project that would contribute to the development of the interstate cooperation in the gas sphere.
Wishing every success in the further work of the TAPI Steering Committee, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that the construction of the pipeline, which would ensure the long-term and guaranteed supplies of Turkmen natural gas to the countries of the South-Eastern Asia, was another step towards the implementation of the energy strategy of Turkmenistan that was oriented for creation of the multi-vector system of energy resources supply to the largest world markets.
The Turkmen leader noted that the new energy bridge was economically beneficial for the countries – project participants, but along with this it had much wider significance. It is obvious that even now we can speak about an efficient consolidated and stabilizing factor of the TAPI project that will be able to have a positive impact on the situation in the Central and South Asia and the whole region in general, and will provide extra stability to the system of political and economic relations on the continent.
Emphasizing the farsightedness and constructiveness of the international initiatives put forward by the President of Turkmenistan with the aim to establish the modern architecture of the global energy safety, the guest expressed deep gratitude to the Turkmen leader for holding regular meetings of the TAPI Steering Committee and Working Group as well as for attracting attention of the world business circles to the project of the new pipeline.
Underlining the significance of the construction of the TAPI transcontinental pipeline, Mr. Jam Kamal Khan reaffirmed the high interest of his country in the early commissioning of the project that would contribute to the development of the interstate cooperation in the gas sphere.
Wishing every success in the further work of the TAPI Steering Committee, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted that the construction of the pipeline, which would ensure the long-term and guaranteed supplies of Turkmen natural gas to the countries of the South-Eastern Asia, was another step towards the implementation of the energy strategy of Turkmenistan that was oriented for creation of the multi-vector system of energy resources supply to the largest world markets.
The Turkmen leader noted that the new energy bridge was economically beneficial for the countries – project participants, but along with this it had much wider significance. It is obvious that even now we can speak about an efficient consolidated and stabilizing factor of the TAPI project that will be able to have a positive impact on the situation in the Central and South Asia and the whole region in general, and will provide extra stability to the system of political and economic relations on the continent.