Tajik-Turkmen agreement on TAT railway still awaited

Tajikistan and Turkmenistan still failed to reach an agreement on an Afghan segment of a regional rail link that will connect Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan (TAT regional rail line).

“Unfortunately, we have not yet signed the program document on this railway because we still have some unsolved issues with Turkmenistan,” Tajik Minister of Transport Sherali Ganjalzoda told reporters in Dushanbe on February 3.

“We have reached an agreement with Afghanistan on all issues and it just remains to coordinate some aspects with Turkmenistan,” the minister said.

According to him, the Tajik government is currently studying the document that should be signed by the sides

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Source: Tajikistan and Turkmenistan still fail to agree on Afghan segment of TAT regional rail line, Asia-Plus, 3 February 2016.

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