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Security Outlook for a Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI) and U.S. Involvement
To identify innovative solutions for securing the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI) from threats and attacks, participating agencies must put together a concerted effort, relying on both physical security and diplomatic measures....
... buyers and transit countries stalling the process. In the IP Gas case, the lack of funds and the pressure from the United States and Saudi Arabia has slowed down the pace of construction in Pakistan, while India has withdrawn from the project altogether. TAPI enjoys strong U.S. support, but Afghanistan’s instability, as well as its limited financial resources, remain a deterrent.
Maria Chepurina, Mathieu Lemonie:
“The TAPI project: Turkmenistan’s bet in pipeline geopolitics”
The weakest link of the IP Gas and TAPI projects are Pakistan’s ...
... Ashgabat,
Turkmenistan, September
17, 2016
Thus, Turkmenistan will seek to build new gas pipelines. Key among them are the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline to the European Union and the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline (TAPI) to India (through Afghanistan and Pakistan). However, instability in Afghanistan poses an obstacle to the construction of TAPI. Unfortunately, such instability is long-term in nature, and it will therefore be impossible to build the TAPI pipeline within the framework of ...
... We cannot anymore let violence and perturbations
threaten the quest
for the economic development and the security of our population’
. According to the Pakistani newspaper
The Nation
in March 2016, ‘
The process of removal of mines in Afghanistan from the TAPI gas pipeline route has begun with the
help of Afghan security
forces’
.
Typically, projects that bring value into a country face less opposition than those seeking to exploit resources for export, so the local Taliban elements will likely ...
... instead of going to Europe through the Nabucco pipeline, competing with Russian gas supplies through the Nord Stream and, in the short run, through the South Stream pipeline. Moreover, the Nabucco project is further away from the realization than the TAPI venture. Afghanistan and Pakistan supported Russia’s participation in the TAPI project. However, Ashgabat, obviously not without American influence,
took a more reserved stance
. The
official statement
of the Turkmen Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out ...
