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The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) of Afghanistan said the Lapis Lazuli Corridor agreement will be implemented within the next two months and will see the first Afghan shipment of goods exported to Europe

Ministry of Industry and Commerce says the first shipment of Afghan goods to Europe through the Lapis Lazuli Corridor will include handicrafts and dry fruit.The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) on Tuesday said the Lapis Lazuli Corridor agreement will be implemented within the next two months and will see the first Afghan shipment of goods exported to Europe via the new route. The Lapis Lazuli Corridor agreement was signed by Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey in November. The corridor will start at Afghanistan’s northern Aqina port in Faryab province and Torghandi in western Herat province and will run through to Turkmenbashi in Turkmenistan. From there it will cross the Caspian Sea and will link the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Tbilisi and Georgia’s Black Sea ports of Batumi and Poti. It will then connect with Kars in eastern Turkey before linking to Istanbul and Europe. The inaugural shipment will carry Afghan handicrafts and dry fruit to Europe, said

Afghan officials said that a delegation from Uzbekistan is in Kabul to start initial assessments on Pul-e-Khumri-Surkhan Power Project in northern Baghlan province

Analysts said government should implement infrastructure projects to ensure Afghanistan’s power besides focusing on imported projects.

Alla scoperta del Minareto di Jam, uno dei siti afghani iscritti nella lista del patrimonio mondiale dell'UNESCO

E’ stata inaugurata il 6 agosto all’Ambasciata d’Italia a Kabul la mostra dedicata al Minareto di Jam, uno dei siti afghani iscritti nella lista del patrimonio mondiale dell'UNESCO. Realizzata congiuntamente dal governo afghano e dall’agenzia ONU per la cultura, l’esposizione ha mostrato per la prima volta al pubblico la documentazione tridimensionale del minareto realizzata nel corso di una recente spedizione archeologica, confrontandola al contempo con i rilievi fotografici condotti dall’architetto italiano Andrea Bruno negli anni ’60 e ’70 durante le prime documentazioni scientifiche del monumento. “Nonostante il difficile contesto di sicurezza, siamo di lieti di ospitare la mostra in Ambasciata, quale omaggio al significativo contributo che l’Italia ha dedicato alla salvaguardia di questo eccezionale monumento, sin dalla sua scoperta a metà del secolo scorso. E’ anche un riconoscimento all’opera dell’architetto Bruno in Afghanistan, che tra gli altri ha progettato la sede de

Afghan Ministry of Agriculture wants to replace Kazakh flour with wheat

Over 200 wheat processing factories have stopped working in the country and the ongoing drought has left the factories almost bankrupt. Officials said that the minister of agriculture is leading a high-level delegation from the private sector to Kazakhstan where they will hold talks with Kazakh officials on reaching an agreement about the proposal. The plan is aimed to address the vulnerabilities we have from the drought and to help the wheat processing factories, said spokesman of the ministry. According to industrialists, over 200 wheat processing factories have stopped working in the country and that the ongoing drought has left the factories almost bankrupt.

Geneva conference on Afghanistan in September is important for the country so as to ensure continued support by the international community towards Afghanistan in years to come

The World Bank has said that the Geneva conference is important for continued aid to Afghanistan. Speaking to TOLOnews, World Bank country director for Afghanistan Shubham Chaudhuri said that at the conference, donors will assess the performance of the National Unity Government and its programs in order to boost Afghanistan’s economic situation in the future and to improve good governance. Meanwhile, officials of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) said that the private sector in Afghanistan still faces serious challenges despite the NUG leaders’ commitments to the international community at the Brussels Summit to tackle their problems. “My understanding and I think this is where the Geneva Conference is really going to help with Afghanistan is kind of setting the stage in the next four years; offers an opportunity for the government to be in a conversation with its main international partners to talk partly, looking back at what has been accomplished in the las

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Afghanistan - Land acquisition problems along the planned route of TAPI gas pipeline

Officials of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project in the country said so far they have completed 45 percent of the land acquisition process of the project in five provinces. But the process is facing some problems. They said that an authoritative commit tee should be assigned to overcome the land acquisition problems along the planned route of the pipeline. “The acquisition of the land is a challenge because much of the land located on the route of the pipeline is privately owned. In some cases, the dispute over the land is referred to court,” said a legal advisor of TAPI in Afghanistan. The TAPI gas pipeline project was inaugurated by the leaders of four countries at the beginning of 2016. The work on the Turkmenistan section of the project was completed in February 2016, and work on the Afghanistan section kicked off in Herat province in the west of the country. The project is very important to Afghanistan in terms of income, the economy and empl