Dushanbe, Oct 5:Tajikistan continues to supply electricity to Afghanistan, albeit in a reduced volume, a spokesman for Barqi Tojik energy holding, Nozirjon Yodgori, told Sputnik.
Earlier on Monday, the Wall Street Journal, citing the former head of the Afghan state energy corporation Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), Daud Noorzai, said that the supplies of electricity to the Afghan capital Kabul could be cut off by winter, as the Taliban (terrorist movement banned in Russia) did not pay the bills to the Central Asian energy suppliers and did not resume collecting money for the energy from the Afghan consumers.
“Tajikistan continues to supply electricity to Afghanistan, but in a reduced volume via one 110-power transmission line, in the amount of up to 180 megawatts per day,” Yodgori said.
The spokesman for the Tajik energy provider also said that the country is fulfilling all obligations under the contract signed at the end of 2020 with DABS.
“This is a private company, payment from which we receive in fact at the end of each month, in August they paid us for the delivery in full,” he said.
According to Yodgori, the Afghan company’s management assured them that it would continue to comply with the terms of the contract, although their budget is still frozen.
Yodgori added that the price of a kilowatt of electricity supplied via the 110-power transmission line is 3.5 cents.
After the Taliban took over in August and the US-backed Afghan government collapsed, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have suspended financial aid to the new Afghan government, which previously accounted for nearly 75% of Afghanistan’s public expenditure, while the US has frozen billions of dollars in assets belonging to the Afghan Central Bank. According to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, the country faces a humanitarian and socio-economic crisis.
(UNI)
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