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Turkmenistan completing construction of railway to Afghanistan

25 October 2016 [17:51] - TODAY.AZ

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The construction of a new railway from the Turkmen town of Atamyrat to the Afghan settlement of Akina is under completion, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported.

"Turkmen builders are completing the construction of the Atamyrat-Ymamnazar section, constructing the railway through the Turkmen-Afghan border, as well as the railway through a small five-kilometer-area from the Turkmen border settlement of Ymamnazar to Akina," the article said.

According to the plan, some 85 kilometers of the main railways of the section account for Turkmenistan, the article said.

"After the completion of the construction, the new railway must connect the Afghan section of Akina-Andkhoy with Atamyrat-Ymamnazar section in Turkmenistan and Panj district in Tajikistan," the newspaper reported.

According to the article, two Gulistan and Ymamnazar railway stations, two large bridges over the Turkmen Karakum canal are being built as part of the project.

The area is part of the transnational railway project along the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan route, the newspaper reported.

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the new railway in June 2013.

"The Trans-Afghan transport corridor will be an important element in the formation of the extensive transport and communication infrastructure, meeting modern realities, in the Asian region," President Berdimuhamedov was cited in the article as saying.

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