{"id":11064,"date":"2026-04-21T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/21\/afghanistan-uzbekistan-kyrgyzstan-expand-transit-cooperation-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:45:40","slug":"afghanistan-uzbekistan-kyrgyzstan-expand-transit-cooperation-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/21\/afghanistan-uzbekistan-kyrgyzstan-expand-transit-cooperation-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan Agree to Expand Transit Cooperation and Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan agreed on strengthening transit cooperation and increasing trade exchange during the International Industrial Exhibition. At the conclusion of the meeting, the establishment of a joint working group to implement agreements and Afghanistan&#8217;s participation in the exhibition were finalized.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting, Nooruddin Azizi, acting Minister of Industry and Trade of the Taliban administration, held talks with Laziz Khodaiberdiev and Iskander Asylkhanov, deputy ministers of economy and trade of Kyrgyzstan, focusing on facilitating transit processes, boosting trade volume, and expanding Afghan exports to these countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to information provided, the main focus of the negotiations was on creating facilities in the transit of commercial goods, especially Afghan export products to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The parties held extensive discussions on reducing transit barriers and creating practical conditions for export growth.<\/p>\n<p>It was also agreed that Afghanistan would participate in the International Industrial Exhibition, which features countries from Central Asia, Russia, and Belarus. With Afghanistan\u2019s membership in this event, the opportunity will be created for widespread participation of Afghan industrial companies and the promotion of domestic products at the regional level.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its geographical position, Afghanistan is considered a key route connecting Central Asia to South Asia. However, economic activists have continually emphasized that the realization of such agreements requires stability in trade policies, transparency in implementation processes, and provision of standard infrastructure within the country\u2014issues that the Taliban administration has so far struggled to fully address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan agree to enhance transit cooperation and trade, forming a joint working group and planning Afghanistan&#8217;s participation in a key industrial exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}