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00:03:04Also, the professionals that you are currently facing shortages
00:03:08with, Afghanistan has good relations with countries.
00:03:12From your perspective, which countries
00:03:15can help Afghanistan in this area?
00:03:18There are two
00:03:21types of countries. One is our neighbor, and then there are the distant
00:03:25external or international countries, as we might call them, which are farther away.
00:03:28That is.
00:04:00Two countries can best help because we haven't mentioned China and
00:04:03Turkey. Due to ongoing regional issues
00:04:06and the current situation, transfers are difficult.
00:04:10In my opinion, Iran and Uzbekistan can provide much better help
00:04:14in the electricity sector in Afghanistan because
00:04:17our transit relations are very good, there are both roads and a
00:04:21railway line. They can be very helpful, and secondly, the price is
00:04:24cheap. The price in China is cheap, but
00:04:28in the past, a container of goods that came cost about
00:04:313,000 to 4,000 dollars. Now one container costs 15 to 18 to 20 thousand dollars.
00:04:35This doubles the project cost. But if we go
00:04:39from Iran or Uzbekistan, that's also good because
00:04:42the price will be cheaper, and they have professional people
00:04:46here. And these are countries, I mentioned both neighboring countries,
00:04:49that have made very good progress
00:04:52in electricity technology. By making better and more effective use
00:04:56of their experience, we will surely be successful
00:04:59in the technology sector. My second suggestion is that
00:05:02we should have factories, investors, and traders should
00:05:06in Afghanistan, we unfortunately don't have transformer factories. Yes, that's right,
00:05:10we don't. We don't have switchgear.
00:14:25As Mr. Ahmadi explained briefly,
00:14:28I also want to ask you about the most important technical challenge
00:14:32in the implementation of this project.
00:14:36Well, there are several sections that I don't
00:14:39want to criticize government agencies or
00:14:43anyone else. As
00:14:47your esteemed guest said, what
00:14:50are our challenges, what do we call
00:14:53bureaucracy?
00:15:25if a foreign company was here, these facilities automatically
00:15:28create obstacles for the investor so that
00:15:31the investor gets discouraged from dealing with bureaucratic issues
00:15:35or investing. In my opinion,
00:15:38the government should implement online systems.
00:15:42Many of our neighboring countries have many coming and going, and we
00:15:46have many connections with Qatar, Dubai, and the Emirates. All systems are online. If we want
00:15:50to prevent corruption, we should use technology. Let's make licensing systems
00:15:53online. Look at the commercial
00:15:57systems, buying and selling, and all these things that are contracted, let's
00:16:01change them from open contracts to investment purchases, even
00:16:04for investors. I am confident that the quality will improve.
00:16:37The second point is that if you provide financial incentives,
00:16:41you don't have to go far. Go to our neighboring country, Uzbekistan,
00:16:45because during the Emirate's time, they were very interested in
00:16:49what they call incentives.
00:16:52Now, anyone who invests one dollar
00:16:56gets a five-year residency.
00:16:58They give him tax exemption, they give him land. Not just Uzbekistan,
00:17:02I mentioned even Europe, America. You saw Trump himself who
00:17:06said whoever invests one million or
00:17:09two to five million dollars, they give them a golden visa.
00:17:13We must facilitate
00:17:16this area, especially visa on arrival and other matters should be made easier.
00:17:20The visa price for foreigners coming to Afghanistan is
00:17:23higher. This means that, naturally, an
00:17:26investor who invests will include all costs in the project.
00:17:30The project cost itself goes up, and people get discouraged.
00:17:34Secondly, the problems that we should mention are that
00:19:07if a power plant is built, all
00:19:11the Ministry of Mines said that there is a gas
00:19:14field, and there is no permission for construction.
00:19:18We went a bit further, and there were restrictions near Qishtipa that
00:19:22you cannot build facilities within 7 kilometers of Qishtipa. Let's sit together so that the team can come
00:19:26and go, and any information about the land that was proposed to us is
00:19:30about 130 kilometers away from the coal mine.
00:19:33If I want to extract coal,
00:19:38I will naturally have to transport it 130
00:19:41kilometers. The coal needed for 2000 megawatts, a thousand
00:19:45megawatts of electricity for Baghlan, in this
00:19:49project, it was the Sholgareh project, 130 kilometers, approximately
00:19:5212 to 13 thousand tons daily is needed, which is about
00:19:56200 to 300 truckloads. Imagine another project
00:20:00for 130 kilometers of land,
00:20:03coal is needed for that. That's why.
00:20:07The two involved individuals went to Shpushta, there's no
00:20:10road. If we want to take machines near the mine,
00:20:14we can transport them there. If we also build a road, if
00:20:17we, for example, do that part, it will increase the project cost.
00:20:21This coordination should happen.
00:20:24This project will be easier for investors.
00:20:27When you said foreign investor, I mean that domestic investors
00:20:31should first be encouraged, as the esteemed guest
00:20:34said, based on this model.
00:21:37There should be one agency, one committee, that controls the agencies so that an
00:21:40investor doesn't have to knock on every office door.
00:21:43Third, our professional agencies
00:21:47and staff should bring them up to standards.
00:21:50Fourth, land or that work
00:21:54or tax issues and financial incentives, the government should prepare them.
00:21:58And in terms of technology and what is effective,
00:22:01neighboring countries, the government should sign G2G
00:22:04(bilateral) agreements so that they come and help
00:22:08with taxes, with transit, and with technology transfer. We see dozens
00:22:12of international Chamber of Commerce conferences, we see agreements being signed
00:22:16for practical implementation, millions of dollars. We need to see the action.
00:22:20Action will happen when we come together and start small.
00:22:23Let's start practically. Be sure, we will. The last part
00:22:27we see is that we should look less from a negative perspective.
00:22:31After this, if an investor wants to invest in Afghanistan, let's
00:22:34encourage them so that others
00:22:38should also play a role. The four Afghans who currently live in Afghanistan should benefit
00:22:42more and better. And instead of us talking about negatives and false
00:22:46things, anyone who has documents and evidence should speak less and say Bismillah.