BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

02/08/2007

Belarus Pledges to Pay Gas Debt

Associated Press

MOSCOW -

The Belarusian president said his country will pay $460 million to settle its gas debt to Russia in the next few days, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.

"Today I ordered money taken from our reserves and payment of $460 million," President Alexander Lukashenko said. Gazprom had threatened to cut natural gas supplies to Belarus by nearly half unless the debt was repaid by Friday.

Source:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/02/ap3980518.html

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