AVA - Afghan, Iranian Delegations Discuss Khaf-Herat Railway

The special representative of Iran to Afghanistan met with, the head of the Islamic Emirate railway administration, and discussed railway cooperation and utilization of the Khaf-Herat railway.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA)_Monitoring, The Embassy of Iran to Kabul has said that the railway linking the two sanctioned countries to the global markets via China.

The Iranian Embassy in Kabul on Sunday in a tweet said, “Views were exchanged to increase railway cooperation, including the operation of the Khaf-Herat railway, completion of the route, and enhancing educational, technical and equipment cooperation between the two sides.

The Islamic Emirate authorities are optimistic to utilize the Khaf-Herat railway as they have already dispatched a group of employees to retain the required training in Tehran.

The Khaf-Herat railway project has been part of a proposed $2 billion Five Nations Railway Corridor (FNRC), which would run through Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and China. The total length is 2,000 km and the railway route runs from Herat to the Afghan-Tajik border and, after crossing Tajikistan, passes through Kyrgyzstan, where it will reach China’s Xinjiang region via the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway.