BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

20/06/2010

Belarus says Russia's cuts in gas supplies to affect transit to Europe

FOCUS News Agency

Minsk. Belarus will be unable to ensure full Russian natural gas transit to Europe, if Russia cuts gas supplies to the ex-Soviet republic by 85% over a debt row, a source in the Belarusian Energy Ministry said on Sunday, RIA Novosti reports.

Belarus refuses to pay the Russian gas price, set at $169 per 1,000 cubic meters for the first quarter of the year and $185 for the second quarter, and has been paying $150 since Jan. 1 instead.

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has warned Belarus' pipeline firm Beltransgaz that it may cut gas supplies from June 21 over the country's debts, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said on Wednesday.

Source:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n223259


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