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“At the moment no one is working on this project in Afghanistan, or any other projects either,” Pakistan’s Economic Affairs Minister Omar Ayub Khan told Russia’s TASS news agency. Only last month, a senior Pakistani government official noted that work on TAPI had been halted pending stabilization of the situation in Afghanistan. And it’s not just TAPI. Turkmen Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov met in Islamabad on December 20 with Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi to remind him about the need to “intensify collective action” on implementation of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, or TAPI, natural gas pipeline project, the TAP high-voltage power transmission line project and a third concurrent project to lay fiber-optic communication cables alongside the power lines.Īshgabat rarely does muscular diplomacy, but there is a sense here that the Turkmens are growing more than a little exasperated at Pakistan’s foot-dragging on TAPI.

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Ashgabat is eager that its vision for a series of Afghanistan-related, energy, transportation and telecommunications infrastructure projects not come to nothing. There is a more pragmatic, hard-nosed dimension to all this, though.

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Images of a handful of trucks bearing the sign “Humanitarian aid to the Afghan people from Turkmenistan’s president” being distributed to grateful aid recipients were shown on state TV news on December 15.

The last was organized on December 14. Humanitarian cargo sent to Afghanistan includes oil products, foodstuffs, and children’s clothing,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement summarizing Khadzhiyev’s speech. “Humanitarian convoys are dispatched on a regular basis. Speaking at a council of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Pakistan on December 19, Turkmen Deputy Foreign Minister Vepa Khadzhiyev reminded listeners that his government has already been actively providing their neighbor to the east with aid in this extremely difficult time. Afghanistan is offering ample opportunity to put this stated idealism into practice.

The president is desperate for international recognition of his contributions to regional stability. This phase of what might come in future to be looked back at as late Berdymukhamedovism is chock-full of transparent attempts at legacy-making.

Several people in the audience appeared to have memorized the verses already, although many others merely moved their lips indistinctly. The poem has now also been put to music and was performed at the conference. As TDH state news agency has it in a report on the December 15 conference, leading figures in the arts and culture scene unanimously expressed gratitude for Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s policies of “peace-loving, humanness, and mutually beneficial cooperation with all the peoples of the planet.”

It was not enough that the president earlier this month subjected minions and diplomats to his latest contribution to world culture – a poem titled “Long live peaceful life!”Īrtists and officials responsible for Turkmenistan’s creative industry were last week compelled to gather and sing praise to this work’s allegedly glorious merits.

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