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Afghan media hails Chabahar port agreement

Xinhua, May 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Afghan media on Tuesday lauded the Chabahar port agreement inked in Tehran as a stride towards boosting trade and economic cooperation in the region and improving regional peace and stability.

Afghan president Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed the trilateral agreement in Iran's capital of Tehran on Monday to develop Chabahar port and connect India to Afghanistan, Central Asia and Caucasus states.

"Inking Chabahar agreement is important for development of trade and economic cooperation and improving peace and security in the region," the Daily Afghanistan newspaper wrote in its editorial.

The development of Chabahar port will also revive Afghanistan's historic and natural role as a "crossroad" connecting Central Asia to South Asia, according to the newspaper.

"Chabahar port will also reduce the dependence of Afghan traders on the Karachi port of Pakistan," the paper said in its editorial.

Another newspaper, the Daily Mandegar, has also hailed the Chabahar port agreement as a milestone for landlocked Afghanistan to reduce its dependence on the Karachi port.

The newspaper in an article published on Tuesday also noted that Iran has allocated 50 hectares of land to Afghanistan in Chabahar free trade zone and 130 Afghan companies have already registered there. Endit