Tajikistan, US Discuss Afghanistan Supply Route: FM / NATO Supplies Get New Route Into Afghanistan / Russia Will Allow NATO Supplies Through......

Tajikistan, US Discuss Afghanistan Supply Route: FM / NATO Supplies Get New Route Into Afghanistan / Russia Will Allow NATO Supplies Through Afghanistan - Report / NATO Needs To: Close Pakistani Border (Taliban Reinforecement) & Shut Down Opium Trade (Taliban Revenue) - Analyze (NSI News Source Info) DUSHANBE - January 21, 2009: The United States and NATO are in talks with the central Asian nation of Tajikistan about supply routes of non-military equipment to Afghanistan, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday. "Talks are ongoing with the United States and NATO," Tajik Foreign Minister Khamrokhon Zafiri said at a press conference. "Tajikistan has colossal possibilities, there are five or six bridges on the Tajik-Afghan border over the Panj River for the transport of non-military cargoes," he added. No agreements have yet been signed, but European countries and the United States have offered proposals and foreign officials are to visit Tajikistan soon to conclude the talks, Zafiri said. Additional Info: Related News NATO Supplies Get New Route Into Afghanistan (NSI News Source Info) January 21, 2009:The US Commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, says an agreement has been reached for new overland transport routes into Afghanistan through countries other than Pakistan. Western troops in Afghanistan had been seeking different ways of getting supplies because convoys were coming under regular attack. General Petraeus said agreements have been reached for additional logistical routes to Afghanistan through the north. They were concluded through central Asian states and also Russia, he said. Currently, most of the NATO supplies are transported overland through Pakistan. But support for the NATO war effort in Afghanistan is unpopular and supply trucks have increasingly been attacked by local Taliban militants.