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  • Turkmenistan's autocrat leader said that his country's debts to China for a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline and another gas project had been paid off "in full", state media reported Saturday. China has invested billions in the development of Turkmenistan's gas industry, establishing itself as the isolated country's number one destination for exports. Beijing's most important projects in the country are the pipeline that begins in eastern Turkmenistan and reaches China via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and a multi-stage development project at Galkynysh, the world's second-largest gas field. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said Turkmenistan had paid off loans provided by China for the pipeline and the first stage of Galkynysh's development "on time and in full", according to a report in the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper. The same news report cited Turkmenistan's oil and gas chief Shakhym Abdurakhmanov as saying that the China Development Bank had acknowledged Turkmenistan's full repayment of the debts in a note sent to Turkmenistan on June 8. Neither Berdymukhamedov nor Abdurakhmanov made reference to the amount that had been repaid. During a visit to the country in 2011, China Development Bank's then-president Jiang Chaoliang said that the bank had loaned Turkmenistan $8.1 billion for the projects. The pipeline known as the Central Asia-China pipeline began deliveries in late 2009 and currently has three strands. A fourth strand known as "Line D" that would involve Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as transit countries in the project is yet to be completed. Turkmenistan's gas exports to China typically exceed 30 billion cubic metres per year -- around six or seven times the volumes it sends to its next largest purchaser, Russia. While Turkmenistan regularly posts rosy economic growth figures, reports from foreign rights groups have indicated that the country is enduring protracted hard currency and food crises. Berdymukhamedov made a rare admission of economic failure earlier this year when he told the government to consider asking creditors to prolong periods for debt repayments. Hydrocarbons account for over 90 percent of Turkmenistan's exports. al-cr/spm
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  • Turkmenistan says China gas pipeline debt paid off
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