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Russia steps on the gas - Georgia and Ukraine to pay
Anti-Russian allies fail to cook on hot air.
Author: John Helmer
Posted: Wednesday , 03 Sep 2008
MOSCOW -
Russia demonstrated on Tuesday that it retains the backing of the major Central Asian gas producers and exporters to Europe - despite public calls from UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and American figures that alternative, non-Russian supplies of Europe's gas should be developed swiftly.
In a ceremony in Tashkent on Tuesday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Uzbek President, Islam Karimov, agreed that Gazprom, Russia's largest enterprise, will buy gas from Uzbekistan at European prices, and build a new gas pipeline from Central Asia, transiting Russia, in order to boost gas purchases from Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. For lack of available gas-feed, the Tashkent deal dooms the Nabucco alternative pipeline, proposed by the NATO alliance to cross Georgian territory, and under the Black Sea to Austria.
In March, Gazprom had agreed with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan over gas purchases starting in 2009 at European prices that have already reached $400 per thousand cubic metres (tcm); this is 50% to 100% higher than the current purchase prices of Central Asian gas.
Anti-Russian allies fail to cook on hot air.
Author: John Helmer
Posted: Wednesday , 03 Sep 2008
MOSCOW -
Russia demonstrated on Tuesday that it retains the backing of the major Central Asian gas producers and exporters to Europe - despite public calls from UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and American figures that alternative, non-Russian supplies of Europe's gas should be developed swiftly.
In a ceremony in Tashkent on Tuesday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Uzbek President, Islam Karimov, agreed that Gazprom, Russia's largest enterprise, will buy gas from Uzbekistan at European prices, and build a new gas pipeline from Central Asia, transiting Russia, in order to boost gas purchases from Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. For lack of available gas-feed, the Tashkent deal dooms the Nabucco alternative pipeline, proposed by the NATO alliance to cross Georgian territory, and under the Black Sea to Austria.
In March, Gazprom had agreed with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan over gas purchases starting in 2009 at European prices that have already reached $400 per thousand cubic metres (tcm); this is 50% to 100% higher than the current purchase prices of Central Asian gas.
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