DATE:
02/08/2007
MINSK, August 2 (Itar-Tass) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko stated on Thursday that Belarus would pay for Russian natural gas within the next few days.
"I instructed the government to withdraw from the reserve fund 460 million dollars and pay Russia for gas," Lukashenko said during his visit to the editorial office of the newspaper Sovetskaya Belarussiya."
Source:
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11764805&PageNum=0
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