GAZPROM FAILS TO TERMINATE GAS DELIVERIES TO TRANSDNIESTRIA

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TIRASPOL, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - Despite its warning, Gazprom has not suspended gas deliveries to the Left-bank Dniester area with the poly-ethnic population prevailed by the Russians, which proclaimed its independence from Moldavia in the early 1990s with the center in Tiraspol.

Alexander Ryazanov, deputy head of the Russian gas concern Gazprom, notified last week the leadership of the non-recognized republic about the suspension of gas deliveries to the consumers in the area from July 1 unless a program for debt payment for the earlier-delivered gas and for servicing current payments is submitted.

This decision results from the fact that the current payments of the Transdniestria consumers amount to 38 percent of the cost of the gas received, Gazprom initiatives on how to settle the debts of the previous years is not supported and protracted talks have not led to any positive results.

The Transdniestria industry ministry has denied any comments but reported that Minister Anatoly Blashku is now in Moscow for talks with the Gazprom management.

Ministry officials said it was not easy to fully suspend gas deliveries as they are from the so-called export pipe that runs across the territory of Transdniestria.

Moldova's general debt to Gazprom amounted at the beginning of the year, according to certain evidence, to $615.7 million, of which $495.6 million was the responsibility of Transdniestria.

Transdniestrian leader Igor Smirnov said the other day that Russia had imported from the territory of Transdniestria more than $2 billion worth of military equipment and therefore he considered that any reference to Transdniestria's debts in this situation was out of question.

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