India has been admitted into Agreement on the Establishment of an International Transport and Transit Corridor”.
This agreement is also known as Ashgabat Agreement.
India’s accession to the Agreement will enter into force on February 3, 2018.
About Agreement:
The Ashgabat Agreement aims to develop a shortest trade route between Central Asian countries and Iranian and Omani ports.
The Ashgabat Agreement has Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as founding members. Subsequently Kazakhstan and Pakistan also formally joined the Ashgabat Agreement.
The Iran-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan (ITK) railway line will be the major route according to the Ashgabat Agreement and was also included as part of India-funded North-South international transport corridor (NSITC).
Ashgabat is the capital the city of Turkmenistan.
It situated between the Karakum Desert and the Kopet Dag mountain range.