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IEA says talks ongoing with Turkey and Qatar for operation of Afghan airports
An Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) official in the Qatari capital of Doha said on Tuesday that negotiations between the Afghan interim government along with Turkey and Qatar have not stopped.
Mohammed Naim Wardak from the IEA’s office said an agreement signed with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) concerned ground operations at the Kabul, Kandahar, and Herat airports and the deal had a contract period of one-and-a-half years.
Wardak said the deal was struck with a UAE company providing services at the airport before the IEA entered Kabul and it did not include the operation of airports, Reuters reported.
The Qatari Foreign Ministry said on January 27 that the delegations from Qatar, Turkiye, and the interim IEA government agreed on several issues regarding key issues about how the International Airport of Kabul would be managed and operated.