INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kazakhstan&s Deputy Prime Minister Serik Zhumangarin says Astana intends to increase its trade with Afghanistan through Turkmenistan, taking
the current volume of $1 billion to $3 billion in a year.&We are working on building an alternative route to increase trade with Afghanistan
It is hoped that this route will increase Kazakhstan&s trade with Afghanistan from one billion dollars to three billion dollars per year,&
said Zhumangarin.He added that Kazakhstan wants to increase the export of flour and wheat to Afghanistan.Recently, Kazakhstan and
Turkmenistan reached an agreement with the Islamic Emirate to establish a large logistics center in Herat province that can store 100
million tons of oil.Meanwhile, a number of economic experts believe that increasing Afghanistan&s trade and transit with regional countries
can have a direct impact on the country&s economic growth.&Kazakhstan is one of the countries rich in natural resources and still relies
Therefore, if Afghanistan has good relations with Kazakhstan, it can make use of that country&s experiences in mining and mechanization of
agriculture,& said an economic expert.Kazakhstan this week removed the Islamic Emirate from its list of terrorist organization & paving the
way for deeper political, economic and commercial relations between the two countries.The post Kazakhstan ‘to boost trade& substantially
with Afghanistan first appeared on Ariana News.
