ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 23 2006

`GASPROM’ EXPRESSES WILLINGNESS TO DISCUSS TERMS OF SIGNING OF THE
NEW AGREEMENT WITH ARMENIA

YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. `Gasprom’ Russian Holding expressed
willingness to discuss terms of signing of the new agreement with
Armenia, according to the RA Minister of Defense and Secretary of the
Council of National Security of Armenia Serge Sargsyan.
`By the commission of the RA President after discussing with the
Prime Minister at the beginning of March I sent a letter to the head
of `Gasprom’ Aleksey Miller with a certain offer and on Friday we
received an answer from him’, he stated.
In his words, as appears from their answer `Gasprom’ is ready to sign
corresponding agreements till the end of the month, which will enable
the population and producers to pay less for the gas then it had been
envisaged.
`I can’t tell how much exactly but I think that rise in price will
affect budgets of the population and producers’, Sargsyan emphasized.

`Gasprom’ Russian holding intends to raise the price for gas imported
to Armenia from $56 to $110 from April 1, 2006. S.P.–0–

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress