Dvorkovich: Russia can’t see any reason to grant a discount for gas to Belarus
Edited by Rhod Mackenzie / 2016-06-17 03:35:59
Moscow doesn’t have any grounds to give a discount for gas to Belarus, however, the parties go on negotiations upon that issue, the Vice-PM, A. Dvorkovich, said.
The negotiations with Belarus go on. Belarus makes various suggestions and we study them, he said.
Meanwhile we don’t understand why we should make a discount and there is no decision as yet, Dvorkovich said.
In early 2016 Minsk raised the issue of the fair basis of the current price for the Russian gas. The OM of Belarus, A. Kobyakov, said that the price of the Russian gas for Belarus consumers is to make up $80/thousand cubic m instead of the current $142.