Tajikistan agreed to provide its rail and automobile routes for the transit of non-military supplies to Afghanistan, Harnitchek said after a meeting with Tajik Foreign Minister Kharokhon Zarifi, Xinhua reported.

The United States plans to transit 50-200 containers weekly from Uzbekistan into Tajikistan and then by land into neighboring Afghanistan, the rear admiral said.

Washington also secured Uzbekistan’s consent for such transit, he added.