There are no invocations to the rates and dynamics of change of the internal gas prices in Russia in the operating contract between the Russian gas monopolist and Beltransgaz, Sergei Kupriyanov, the official representative of Gazprom, stated, making comments on reaction of the Belarusian authorities to the requirements of Russia to extinguish gas debts in five-day term.
According to Sergei Kupriyanov, if the Belarusian party intends to initiate negotiations on this issue, it is able to do it within the limits of corresponding intergovernmental institutes, but the operating contract should be executed in full, RIA Novosti informs.
The official representative of Gazprom also noticed that today, on June, 16th, the Russian gas monopolist sent the letters once again to Vladimir Mayorov, the Board Director of Beltransgaz, and the Vladimir Semashko, First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus. Gazprom noticed once again in the letter that «this year Beltransgaz regularly violates conditions of the contract signed on December, 31st, 2006».
«Gazprom warned Belarus about future restriction of gas delivery in the country. This measure will be accepted if Belarus refuses to repay the outstanding debts of Beltransgaz at amount of 200 million dollars. Gazprom denied the charges of the Belarusian party in infringement of contract obligations», Sergei Kupriyanov said.
According to Sergei Kupriyanov, Gazprom proposed to take «exhaustive measures to repay acccumulated debts till June, 21st». The representative of the company noticed also that «otherwise Gazprom will have to exercise the right to impose restriction on gas delivery to Belarus according to the contract clause 6.4».
In turn, the Belarusian party stated that the contract terms providing gradual growth of the lowering factor to the price, were based on principle of synchronous transfer of two countries to the equal prices for gas.
«Russia, postponing transfer on equal prices in its territory, violated the base conditions underlying the contract on gas delivery to Belarus. That’s why, it should be reconsidered», an anonymous source in Minsk stated.
As Telegraf informed, Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting with Gazprom’s Board chairman, Alexei Miller, gave Belarus five days to decide on payment of the debt for Russian gas delivered in 2010. According to Russian leader, this term is defined «taking into account that we cooperate with Belarus as partners».
«You will contact the heads of Belarusian structures, who deal with this issue, and offer them to repay debt as soon as possible. If this is not done then we’ll have to take strict measures», Dmitri Medvedev said.
