ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
January 27, 2007 Saturday 01:20 PM EST
Georgia hopes to receive gas from Azerbaijan – Saakashvili
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Georgia hopes to receive
gas mainly from Azerbaijan.
In an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Saturday,
Saakashvili said, “Georgia will receive gas mainly from Azerbaijan.
We’re very grateful to Ilkham Aliyev (President of Azerbaijan) who
decreed on gas supplies to Georgia last year despite the difficulties
in Azerbaijan itself.”
In his view, at present, the third part of all gas supplies to
Georgia will account on Azerbaijan. “I think that the supplies will
reach 80 percent by the spring, April.”
At the same time, Saakashvili noted that Georgia did not give up
Russian gas supplies. But he described the gas price – 235 U.S.
dollars per 1,000 cubic metres as “unlimited”. Saakashvili said the
gas price for Georgia is of political nature.
In his words, Russia supplied gas to Armenia via Georgia at a sum of
110 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cubic metres. “It will be good Georgia to
receive gas at the same price,” the Georgian president added.