{"id":6457,"date":"2015-12-20T21:16:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2018-04-16T22:40:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:40:44","slug":"adb-suspends-tat-railway-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/adb-suspends-tat-railway-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"ADB suspends TAT railway funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a news report, on 15 December 2015 the Asian Development Bank&#8217;s Country Director for Tajikistan, Si Si Yu, told reporters that ADB had suspended its financial support for the construction of the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/tat-railway\/\">Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan railway<\/a> owing to security risks.<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6457-1' id='fnref-6457-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6457)'>1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although Turkmenistan has completed construction of its section of the railway, we do not intend to finance construction of a railway in country where (Afghanistan) security is not guaranteed,&#8221; Yu said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very risky.&#8221; He said the ADB would &#8220;probably&#8221; return to the project &#8220;when the security situation in Afghanistan improves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t spot any other reports on this, or an official announcement from ADB. <\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-6457'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-6457-1'> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.videonews.us\/adb-cuts-support-for-construction-of-afghan-railway-1644297.html\">ADB cuts support for construction of Afghan railway<\/a>, Harun Varl\u0131, Videonews, 16 December 2015 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6457-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a news report, on 15 December 2015 the Asian Development Bank&#8217;s Country Director for Tajikistan, Si Si Yu, told reporters that ADB had suspended its financial support for the construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan railway owing to security risks.1 &#8220;Although Turkmenistan has completed construction of its section of the railway, we do not intend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[12,165,299],"class_list":["post-6457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-adb","tag-tajikistan","tag-tat-railway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}