{"id":13199,"date":"2026-05-17T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/17\/turkmenistan-afghanistan-attention-electricity-cooperation-expansion\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:50:19","slug":"turkmenistan-afghanistan-attention-electricity-cooperation-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/17\/turkmenistan-afghanistan-attention-electricity-cooperation-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan President Emphasizes Special Attention to Afghanistan Amid Expanding Electricity Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkmenistan officials have stated that Ashgabat pays special attention to Afghanistan and considers the country an important and good neighbor. At the same time, bilateral cooperation in the electricity sector is expanding.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Haq Hamkar, the acting CEO of the Barshina Company, which operates under the Taliban administration, met with Anageldi Saparov, Turkmenistan&#8217;s Minister of Energy, during his visit to Turkmenistan to discuss the development of electricity cooperation. The main focus of the meeting was the progress of joint electricity transmission projects between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, it was reported that the 500-kilovolt electricity transmission line project is advancing rapidly and is expected to be completed within about one year. This project is considered one of the major infrastructure initiatives in the energy sector that could increase the electricity transmission capacity to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Turkmenistan officials have also assured that the electricity supply process to Afghanistan will continue smoothly. They have pledged to soon visit Kabul with new plans and proposals for additional electricity projects.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkmenistan Minister of Energy added that the country&#8217;s president also pays special attention to Afghanistan and has emphasized strengthening friendly relations and joint cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkmenistan emphasizes special attention to Afghanistan with expanding electricity cooperation and plans to enhance bilateral energy projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13199","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\/13199","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=13199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}