During his visit to Tajikistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Chairman of the Turkmen People's Council (Halk Maslahaty), has offered to supply electricity and natural gas to Tajikistan via Uzbekistan.
According to local TV channel Altyn Asyr, Ashgabat is ready to carry out such interaction on a systematic basis and discuss technical and organisational issues of supplies in detail. "Here it seems appropriate to organise a trilateral meeting with the participation of experts from the Uzbek side".
Electricity in Turkmenistan is generated from natural gas, of which the country has the fourth largest reserves in the world.
Until recently, Uzbekistan acted as a transit country, with two separate pipelines running through it through which Turkmenistan exports natural gas to China and Russia. In recent years, Uzbekistan has started to buy not only electricity (from 2019) but also natural gas (from December 2022) directly from Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan also sells electricity to Afghanistan, Iran and Kyrgyzstan (via Uzbekistan).
Eziz Boyarov
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