BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

12/01/2010

Talks on terms of Russia power transit via Belarus start in Minsk

MINSK, January 12 (Itar-Tass) - The Belarussian-Russian talks started in Minsk on conditions of commercial deliveries of Russian electricity via the Belarussian territory to the Baltic countries and its transit to the Kaliningrad Region.

Representatives of the Inter RAO EES Company from the Russian side and of the Belenergo Amalgamation from the Belarussian participate in the talks. Negotiators concentrate on a size of a transit charge for transportation of Russian electricity via Belarus to Kaliningrad and the Baltic countries as well as its deliveries to the Belarussian side," Itar-Tass learnt at the Belarussian Energy Ministry.

It is planned that following consultations at the expert level, executives of the enterprises will also have a meeting.

Moscow and Minsk could not agree conditions for transporting Russian electricity last December at working consultations to draft a programme for bilateral cooperation in the energy sphere in 2010.

Belenergo specialists noted that the situation around transit of Russian electricity to the Kaliningrad Region had not popped up all of a sudden. In connection with the shutdown of the Ignalina nuclear power station in Lithuania, a shortage of power was to be expected, hence a rise in transit deliveries to the Kaliningrad Region via Belarus.

Belenergo reckons that "Russian partners were to resolve all questions in good time concerning power transit in this direction, including finance".

The Belarussian side insists on raising the transit charge through its grids in connection with an increase in expenses, preconditioned by a rise in volumes of power deliveries in 2010.

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14711255&PageNum=0


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