Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Kabul (BNA) Presided over by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the regional connection council’s session was held yesterday at presidential palace.
First, senior advisor to President on infrastructural affairs Mohammad Hamayoun Qayoumi briefed the session related to first draft plan for regional connection and said that the draft aimed to connect Afghanistan with neighboring countries. Qayoumi considered the draft as beneficial for economic development, expansion of borders, construction of transit routes and exports and investment in Afghanistan, adding that regional connection would result in key economic motivation. In the session, ministers of communications, transport, public works and economy welcomed the draft and pledged to share their written visions in this regard.
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said current problems and vacuums in infrastructural and technical sections in Afghanistan and out of the country should be reviewed, adding that agreements signed between Afghanistan and various countries should be carefully assessed and existed vacuums should be basically addressed.
The country’s President considered all agreements of Afghanistan with central Asian countries, Iran and India in various sectors as useful and stressed on further attention in this regard.
President Ghani also asserted that the current transit routes’ problems with regional and neighboring countries should be basically reviewed and addressed, adding that an inter-ministerial committee should be created for addressing such problems and fulfilling better works and the ministry of foreign affairs should play the role of facilitator in this regard.
The country’s President further said that the committee should focus on logistical plans and human resources and enhance the capacity of the relevant ministries, adding that the regional connection council should play the role of policy-maker.
