From: EurasiaDigest (digest@eurasianet.org)
Date: Tue Feb 14 2006 - 10:41:11 EST
INDIAN DELEGATION ARRIVES IN TURKMENISTAN FOR PIPELINE TALKS
Delegates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India arrived in Ashgabat on 13 February for the ninth meeting of the steering committee for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan natural-gas pipeline, turkmenistan.ru reported. Mines and Industry Minister Mir Mohammad Sediq will represent Afghanistan. Amanullah Jadoon, federal minister for petroleum and natural resources, will head Pakistan's delegation, "Dawn" reported. Dinsha J. Patel, minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, will represent India, news.webindia123.com reported. The two-day meeting, scheduled for 14-15 February, is the first ministerial-level session of the steering committee to which India has been invited. NewsCentralAsia reported that India may formally join the project as an official member in the course of the session. The estimated construction cost of the 1,680-kilometer pipeline from Turkmenistan to the Pakistan-India border is $3.3 billion, and it will have an annual throughput capacity of 33 billion cubic meters of gas, turkmenis
tan.ru reported. DK
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