CA-NEWS (TM) - Representatives of the Governments of Turkmenistan and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan signed a framework agreement on the construction of the Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India (TAPI) gas pipeline during the second meeting of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Afghani commission for trade and economic cooperation in Kabul, August 30.

As the Turkmenistan.ru correspondent reports from Ashgabat with reference to the official report, the document was signed by Minister of Oil and Gas and Mineral Resources of Turkmenistan Bayramgeldy Nedirov and Minister for Mines and Mining of Afghanistan Vahidulla Shahrani.

Members of the Intergovernmental Turkmen-Afghan commission on the Afghan side, headed by Economics Minister Abdul Hadi Argandival, expressed strong interest in building their country's cooperation with Turkmenistan, who is "providing unprecedented assistance for the socio-economic revival of Afghanistan," the report says.