Taliban Energy Minister: We paid part of Iran’s electricity debt – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to the Mehr news agency, quoted by the Ofoq news agency, “Abdul Taif Mansour”, the Minister of Water and Energy of the interim government of the Taliban in Afghanistan, in a speech this Saturday, stating that 35 million dollars of electricity import debt from Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan remained, he said: Part of this The debt has been paid.
The Minister of Water and Energy of the interim government of the Taliban in Afghanistan continued in this regard that the previous government of his country had left a lot of debt from the countries of Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in connection with the import of electricity.
“Abdul Taif Mansour” further added: “Taliban interim government has paid part of this debt and the debt of these countries has not been fully paid yet.”
This Taliban official announced the integration of energy, water and electricity organizations in Afghanistan and said: Due to the allocation of electricity budget to other institutions in the previous government, a number of construction projects in this area have remained unfinished.
He asked the countries of the world to invest in the infrastructure of Afghanistan.
This is while on July 14 of this year Seyyed Hassan Mortazavi, the deputy of the Iranian embassy in Kabul, met and discussed with Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the deputy acting minister of foreign affairs of the interim government of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The media office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the interim government of the Taliban in Afghanistan announced that in this meeting, issues such as the expansion of bilateral political and economic relations and the increase of trade between the two countries were discussed and consulted by the parties.
A senior official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the interim government of the Taliban also confirmed this meeting in a Twitter message and called the development and deepening of relations between the two sides as one of the axes of the consultations of the two sides in today’s meeting.
The review of Afghanistan’s outstanding debt to Iran was one of the other topics of this media meeting.
In this regard, Kabul Times added: The political deputy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the interim government of the Taliban during the meeting with the deputy ambassador of Iran in Kabul, while appreciating Iran’s cooperation with the people of Afghanistan, emphasized the need to create an atmosphere of friendship between the people of the two countries.