Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov is currently in Dushanbe on his state visit and Tajik and Turkmen leaders have a lot to talk and about and the most important thing is to agree.
In terms of economic collaboration, Turkmenistan is the most distant from Tajikistan among all countries in the region, if you do not take into account the closure of the border with Kyrgyzstan due to the border clash two years ago.
At the same time, the legal foundation of the bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan includes more than 110 cooperation documents.
For comparison, the legal foundation of bilateral cooperation with Kazakhstan includes 93 cooperation documents.
Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are currently the two Central Asian nations that have not yet been plugged back to the Central Asian unified power grid.
At present, the power grids of the Southern part of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan operate within the Central Asian Interconnected Power Grid (CA IPG). Through the power grid of Kazakhstan, they operate in parallel with the Unified Power Grids of Russia and the CIS.
Currently, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are collaborating only in two regional projects: the Line D of the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline and the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan Railway. But even in these two projects, to put it mildly, things are not going in the best way.
According to data from the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, a two-way trade between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan last year valued at about 53 US million dollars, which is 2.4 times more than in 2021. Tajikistan’s exports to Turkmenistan last year were estimated at only 783,000 US dollars.
Over the first three months of this year, the bilateral trade between Tajikistan and Turkmenistan has valued at about 19.326 million US dollars. This consisted of Tajikistan’s exports to Turkmenistan estimated at 235,300 US dollars and Tajikistan’s imports from Turkmenistan worth 19,090,700 dollars.
