The Director-General of the Persian Gulf Affairs at the Iranian Foreign Ministry Alireza Enayati announced that the transport corridor connecting Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will be launched in the future.
According to Enayati, thorough discussions have been held between Tehran and Muscat for the activation of the Ashgabat Agreement, which is about the transit route between Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. He expressed hope that the corridor will be launched in the future.
The Ashgabat agreement is a multimodal transport agreement between the governments of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, India, Pakistan, and Oman for creating an international transport and transit corridor facilitating the transportation of goods between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. The agreement came into force in April 2016. Turkmenistan is the depository state for the agreement.
The objective of this agreement is to enhance connectivity within Eurasian region and synchronize it with other transport corridors within that region including the International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC).
