GEORGIA BLOCKS GAS FLOW TO ARMENIA?

Panorama.am
15:53 09/01/2009

Natural gas flow from Russia to Armenia through Georgia will be
stopped, reports Trend Capital. Today the Minister of Energy of Georgia
Alexander Khetaguri is going to make an announcement in this regard.

Note that Georgia gets 10% of transit gas. The country has tried to
hold negotiations with Russia to make some changes in gas price which
they get but Russia is intended to make no changes.

The Minister of Energy of Georgia rejected the announcement made by
the Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin who said that irrespective
of political conflict with Georgia Russia provides natural gas to
them. Mr. Khetaguri said that they receive gas from Azerbaijan and
not from Russia.