A delegation from Uzbekistan\u2019s government, led by Investment and Foreign Trade Minister Sardor Umurzakov, met with the Afghan delegation led by Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy prime minister of the Taliban\u2019s provisional government in Termez (in the southern portion of Uzbekistan) on Oct. 16, for a one-day conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement from Uzbekistan\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman Yusup Kabulzhanov told TASS<\/em> on Oct.\u00a016: “\u2018At the meetings, representatives of a number of ministries and agencies discussed trade and economic cooperation, border security, cooperation in the fields of energy, international haulage and transit.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe talks are reported to have focused on the implementation of infrastructure projects, which include the construction of the Surkhan-Puli-Khumri transmission line and the Termez-Mazar-i-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar railway,\u201d TASS <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Afghani English-language online daily 8AM<\/em> also reported that \u201cIn the meeting, the two sides have appointed a joint technical team to provide instructions for the implementation of projects. After 10 days, the team is supposed to complete strategy and instructions on how to implement these projects and present them to the officials of both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Termez is becoming a hub for humanitarian aid. The UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) said this week that three consignments of humanitarian aid would be airlifted to Termez in the near future before entering Afghanistan by truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Radio Free Europe<\/em> reported that last month, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev told the UN General Assembly that his country has resumed the supply of oil and electricity to Afghanistan. \u201cIt is impossible to isolate Afghanistan and leave it within the range of its problems,\u201d RFE<\/em> quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In related news, AFP<\/em> reported that acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met in Ankara on Oct.\u00a014 with Turkey Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct Cavusoglu: \u201cCavusoglu called on governments to unfreeze Afghanistan\u2019s foreign accounts to ease the growing humanitarian crisis but said Turkey was not yet ready to recognize the group.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A delegation from Uzbekistan\u2019s government, led by Investment and Foreign Trade Minister Sardor Umurzakov, met with the Afghan delegation led by Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy prime minister of the Taliban\u2019s provisional government in Termez (in the southern portion of Uzbekistan) on Oct. 16, for a one-day conference. In a statement from Uzbekistan\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman Yusup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":81101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,446,506],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-81100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-updates-bri","category-updates-wlb","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81111,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81100\/revisions\/81111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}