| 21 January | — The President of Argentina’s Bridas oil company, Carlos Alberto Bulgheroni, arrives in Afghanistan. |
| 31 January | — An international conference on Afghanistan opens in London. |
| 14 February | — The ninth meeting of the Committee for the Implementation of the Trans-Afghan Gas Pipeline project is held in Turkmenistan. |
| 23 February | — A meeting of the Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of Tajikistan opens in Dushanbe. |
| 17 March | — A press conference on the results of joint Afghan-American aerospace exploration of Afghanistan’s oil and gas potential, whose publication has caused quite a stir in the world press, is held in Kabul. |
| 23 May | — President Karzai arrives in the United Arab Emirates for a two-day working visit. |
| 28 May | — President Karzai pays a working visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. |
| 26 July | — President Karzai meets with President Emomali Rakhmonov of Tajikistan. |
| 28 October | — Afghanistan’s Minister of Energy and Water Mohammad Ismail Khan visits Tajikistan and takes part in the work of the Second Central Asia/South Asia Electricity Trade Conference. |
| 30 October | — Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan sign a memorandum of cooperation in the energy sector. |
| 9 November | — Afghanistan’s Minister of Energy and Water Mohammad Ismail Khan visits Uzbekistan. |
| 11-12 December | — Dushanbe hosts an international conference entitled “Afghanistan and Regional Security: Five Years After the Taliban,” organized on the initiative of the Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, the Alexander Knyazev Public Foundation, and the Republican Center for Conflictology and Regional Studies (Dushanbe). |
