Belarus gave more than $ 700 million debt for Russian gas
Belarus in full, in the amount of 726,2 million dollars, to repay the overdue debt for Russian gas deliveries in 2016-2017.
It is reported by Gazprom, Interfax reported.
“We were able to find common approaches and completely settled the problem,” – said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.
According to him, Russia and Belarus signed a package of documents regulating the supply of oil and gas prices, immediately after payment of debt for gas.
The documents were previously approved at the Russian government meeting on Thursday.
The sides signed a Protocol on amendments to agreement between governments on the formation of prices in the supply and transportation of gas to Belarus and further cooperation in the gas sector.
We will remind, at the end of brezna Prime Ministers of Russia and Belarus, namely, Dmitry Medvedev and Andrei Kobyakov, respectively, failed to negotiate solution to gas dispute “cost” of $ 700 million.
It is a dispute about the supply of Russian gas. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of energy of Russia Alexander Novak. Medvedev at the meeting with the Belarusian Prime Minister, which took place on Thursday, March 30, he called his interlocutor “to look for solutions and the answer to the difficulties that appeared for the last time”, but optimism about the outcome of the negotiations is not found.