Moldova to pay more for Russian gas in 2010
Russia s gas giant Gazprom has announced the preliminary price for gas supplied to Moldova in the first quarter of 2010 - 233 dollars per 1,000 square metres of gas. The new price is by about 40 dollars higher compared with the fourth quarter of 2009, Deputy Premier, Economics Minister Valeriu Lazar told a news conference on 4 January.
Lazar noted that Gazprom announced the preliminary price in late 2009. The increase in the price for gas is an external factor that we cannot control and it will lead to higher energy tariffs, Lazar said.
The minister specified that the cabinet was looking for measures to lessen the economic impact of the increase in gas price on less well-off people.
The price for Russian gas supplied to Moldova has been quarterly revised since 2008. This is in line with a five-year agreement signed by Gazprom and the Moldovan government in 2007.
Moldpres (Moldova's State news agency)
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