Belarusians in talks with Gazprom
Senior Belarusian energy officials held talks in Moscow this evening to seek an agreement on a new supply contract for Russian natural gas, hoping to avert a threatened New Year’s Day cut-off that could affect European deliveries, officials said.
Russia’s state-controlled natural gas monopoly OAO Gazprom renewed its warnings to Belarus not to siphon gas from the main pipeline leading across its territory to Europe if it turns off the taps to the ex-Soviet republic of 10 million, whose leadership is resisting a a price hike that would hurt its Soviet-style economy.
