Kazakhstan Denies it is Joining TAPI Pipeline

Reports about Kazakhstan's joining the TAPI gas pipeline project is premature, country’s Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov told media on Friday.

"During my recent visit to India where the project was discussed, some media outlets disseminated the information that Kazakhstan is ready to join the TAPI project and will lay the pipeline from India to Kazakhstan," Azernews quoted him as saying. "This is incorrect."

He said the parties discussed the importance and usefulness of developing new forms of relations during the meetings in India and transportation routes between the two countries, Azernews added.

"We were unanimous insomuch it is necessary to unite India, South and Central Asia through different transport routes, including such a project as TAPI," he said, adding Kazakhstan supports the project.