{"id":22446,"date":"2026-09-22T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/22\/afghanistan-turkmenistan-expand-transit-road-transport\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:15:16","slug":"afghanistan-turkmenistan-expand-transit-road-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/22\/afghanistan-turkmenistan-expand-transit-road-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan and Turkmenistan Agree to Expand Transit and Road Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of a two-day meeting in Herat, delegations from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan agreed to expand relations between the two countries in the transport and transit sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, the two sides comprehensively reviewed issues related to transport and transit and stressed the need to strengthen cooperation in this area. It was also agreed that a joint commission would be established to address matters related to road transport.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting also discussed facilitating the visa issuance process for drivers and traders, as well as increasing traffic along transit routes between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Herat is in western Afghanistan and borders important regional trade routes, while Turkmenistan is one of Afghanistan\u2019s neighbours to the northwest, and its shared crossings are important in transit exchanges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan and Turkmenistan agree to expand transit, road transport and visa facilitation for drivers and traders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446","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=22446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}