TAJIKISTAN INTENDS TO BUY FROM NEIGHBOR REPUBLIC 650 MILLION CUBIC METRE OF GAS

           Dushanbe, December, 17th. (Mavzuna Boyeva, Shoim Mallaev, the NIAT «Khovar»). — The Tajik party has begun negotiations with Uzbekistan about deliveries of gas to 2009. As the NIAT «Khovar» has informed the first assistant to the general director of State Unitary Enterprise "Tojikgas" Shavkat Shoimov, one week ago the Tajik delegation led by the general director «Tojikgas» Fathiddin Muhsiddinov was in Tashkent where negotiated with the Uzbek colleagues for deliveries of gas to next year. According to S. Shoimov, Tajikistan in 2009 is measured to buy 650 million cubic meter of gas from neighbor republic.            However, the Uzbek party offers to «Tojikgas» only 550 million cubic meter of gas. Besides the Uzbek colleagues were not defined yet with by on production.