ITAR-TASS, Russia
Saturday 2:31 PM GMT
Russian-Armenian gas talks underway under time pressure, says presidential spokesman
MOSCOW December 29
Russia and Armenia continue the talks on gas issues under time pressure, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.
MOSCOW, December 29. /TASS/. Russia and Armenia continue the talks on gas issues under time pressure, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.
"They (talks) continue under time pressure, the Armenian colleagues are in contact with Gazprom," he said.
The issue of gas supplies was dwelled upon at the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Moscow on December 27. Earlier Peskov said that "it was agreed to intensify the conversation on gas."
The Armenian authorities have repeatedly said earlier that they were negotiating a gas price reduction with the Russian side. In 2018, Armenia received gas on the border with Russia at the price of $150 per 1,000 cubic meters, which had been lowered to that level from $165 per 1,000 in 2016. Meanwhile, the fuel price for consumers was $290.