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Trade and economic ties between Tashkent and Kabul, despite the aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan caused by the change of power in the country, should soon be restored. This opinion was expressed on Tuesday by the director of the largest logistics terminal in the south of Uzbekistan, Termez Cargo Center, Nodirbek Jalilov, in an interview with a TASS correspondent.

“I am confident that in the coming weeks, the volume of trade between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan will not only recover, but possibly increase,” Jalilov said. In his opinion, the corruption of officials in this country significantly influenced the trade with Afghanistan.

“Under Ashraf Ghani, corruption penetrated into all spheres, especially in the sphere of international transport, as a rule, here, at the Termez – Hairaton checkpoint, exporters and transit countries paid all customs duties, but then, as they moved through Afghanistan, they were extorted from them. the sum three or four times more,” Jalilov explained. The Taliban, according to him, during their previous rule harshly suppressed the facts of such corruption.