Putin proposes adopting EEU Strategy without paragraph on gas for now
<p> MINSK, May 19 - PrimePress. If Armenia and Belarus do not change their position on the gas tariffs, it is logical to exclude this point from the draft Development Strategy of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 19 at the session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. </p> <p> </p> <p> Armenia and Belarus do not accept the general EEU formula for calculating gas tariffs proposed by the draft EEU Development Strategy until 2025. </p> <p> </p> <p> Putin said consideration of approaches to gas pricing could continue at the level of experts and the Eurasian Economic Commission. </p> <p> </p> <p> Lukashenko and the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan agreed in a telephone talk on March 31 that the price of Russian natural gas was unreasonably high and, obviously, did not correspond to the current global situation. </p> <p> </p> <p> In February 2020, Gazprom head Alexei Miller and Belarus’ Ambassador to the Russian Federation Vladimir Semashko approved a pricing procedure for supplies of Russian gas to Belarus in 2020, which left the gas price for Belarus at the level of 2019 ($127 per 1,000 cubic meters). Since then, Belarus has been insisting that Russian gas for Minsk should equal Russia’s domestic prices, as provided for by the 2011 agreement on the sale of Beltransgaz gas transmission company to Gazprom. </p> <p> </p> <p> Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Rumas said on May 14 that Belarus would try to prove to Gazprom in May 2020 that the price of gas imported from Russia at $127 per 1,000 cubic meters is excessive, since the spot price stands at $80. </p> <p> </p> <p> The Eurasian Economic Union is an international integration economic association that has been operating since January 1, 2015. It unites Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Belarus is presiding in EEU bodies in 2020. End </p>
2020-05-20
Primepress
Putin proposes adopting EEU Strategy without paragraph on gas for now
MINSK, May 19 - PrimePress. If Armenia and Belarus do not change their position on the gas tariffs, it is logical to exclude this point from the draft Development Strategy of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 19 at the session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.
Armenia and Belarus do not accept the general EEU formula for calculating gas tariffs proposed by the draft EEU Development Strategy until 2025.
Putin said consideration of approaches to gas pricing could continue at the level of experts and the Eurasian Economic Commission.
Lukashenko and the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan agreed in a telephone talk on March 31 that the price of Russian natural gas was unreasonably high and, obviously, did not correspond to the current global situation.
In February 2020, Gazprom head Alexei Miller and Belarus’ Ambassador to the Russian Federation Vladimir Semashko approved a pricing procedure for supplies of Russian gas to Belarus in 2020, which left the gas price for Belarus at the level of 2019 ($127 per 1,000 cubic meters). Since then, Belarus has been insisting that Russian gas for Minsk should equal Russia’s domestic prices, as provided for by the 2011 agreement on the sale of Beltransgaz gas transmission company to Gazprom.
Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Rumas said on May 14 that Belarus would try to prove to Gazprom in May 2020 that the price of gas imported from Russia at $127 per 1,000 cubic meters is excessive, since the spot price stands at $80.
The Eurasian Economic Union is an international integration economic association that has been operating since January 1, 2015. It unites Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Belarus is presiding in EEU bodies in 2020. End