{"id":7361,"date":"2020-01-16T23:59:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2020-12-09T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:19:16","slug":"italian-loan-for-herat-railway-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/italian-loan-for-herat-railway-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian loan for Herat railway project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 January 2020 the Afghan parliament approved a \u20ac65m long-term loan from Italy for the Rabat Beryan to Herat airport section of the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/iran-to-herat\/\">Khaf &#8211; Herat railway<\/a> project. The 40-year loan with a 29 year grace period will be paid in installments of \u20ac40m, \u20ac40m and \u20ac25m, and no interest will be charged.<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-7361-1' id='fnref-7361-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(7361)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The route from Robat Paryan\/Rabat Pariyan to the Herat (\u0647\u0631\u0627\u062a\u200e\u200e) industrial area and airport forms the ~20 km <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/route-of-the-khaf-herat-railway\/\">Stage 4 Phase 2 of the Iran to Herat railway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DYK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DYK<\/a> that the Italian Government invests in a holistic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/infrastructure?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#infrastructure<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/connectivity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#connectivity<\/a> program in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Herat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Herat<\/a> region (roads, railways and airport) for the sustainable socio-economic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/development?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#development<\/a> of western <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a>?<br \/>&#x2708;&#xfe0f;&#x1f309;&#x1f6e3;&#xfe0f;&#x1f689;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ecdelre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ecdelre<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SDGs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SDGs<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>(10\/10) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OLllsqAucj\">pic.twitter.com\/OLllsqAucj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Italy in Afghanistan (@italyinafg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/italyinafg\/status\/1142316802640416769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Italy is financing the fourth phase of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Herat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Herat<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Khaf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Khaf<\/a> railway. Connectivity is crucial for economic growth of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a> and for progress towards self sustainability.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cooperazione_it?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cooperazione_it<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aics_it?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@aics_it<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ItalyMFA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ItalyMFA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oJ5LoLekH2\">https:\/\/t.co\/oJ5LoLekH2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Italy in Afghanistan (@italyinafg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/italyinafg\/status\/1117145962525360128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-7361'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-7361-1'> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afghanistantimes.af\/house-passes-italy-loan-for-railway-project\/\">House passes Italy loan for railway project<\/a>, Afghanistan Times, 15 January 2020 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-7361-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 January 2020 the Afghan parliament approved a \u20ac65m long-term loan from Italy for the Rabat Beryan to Herat airport section of the Khaf &#8211; Herat railway project. The 40-year loan with a 29 year grace period will be paid in installments of \u20ac40m, \u20ac40m and \u20ac25m, and no interest will be charged.1 The [&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],"tags":[81,327],"class_list":["post-7361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-herat","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","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=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7464,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions\/7464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}