The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> India, Pak, others to sign US-backed pipeline
| India, Pak, others to sign US-backed pipeline |
|
Posted by
Tiglath
(Guest)
- Thursday, October 21 2010, 13:05:15 (UTC) from 123.2.151.230 - 123-2-151-230.static.dsl.dodo.com.au  Australia -  Windows NT -  Internet ExplorerWebsite: Website title: |
India, Pak, others to sign US-backed pipeline Posted: Tue Oct 19 2010, 18:46 hrs Geneva: The project will supply gas from resource-rich Central Asia to energy-starved South Asia. India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan will sign an agreement in December to build a 1,800 km long US-backed trans-border gas pipeline estimated to cost USD 7 billion, which bypasses Iran. "A MoU was signed recently between the four countries-India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan- and it will be operationalised by their leaders when they meet in December," Eklil Ahmad Hakimi, deputy foreign minister of Afghanistan, told reporters. The proposed project will supply gas from the resource-rich Central Asia to energy-starved South Asia. The planned pipeline running through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India is backed by the United States as it does not pass through Iran unlike other projects planned by India and Pakistan. "This is a huge project involving energy cooperation between Central Asia and South Asia," the Afghan minister said, suggesting that the 1800 km underground pipeline will create employment for 20,000 people in his country now facing enormous security threats. --------------------- |
The full topic:
|
|
Content-length: 1569 Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept: image/jpeg, application/x-ms-application, image/gif, application/xaml+xml, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap, applicati... Accept-language: en-AU Connection: Keep-Alive Cookie: *hidded* Host: www.insideassyria.com Pragma: no-cache Referer: http://www.insideassyria.com/rkvsf5/rkvsf_core.php?.CIst. User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; FunWebProducts; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.... |
Powered by RedKernel V.S. Forum 1.2.b9