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"an angry little stinker whos been a failure at everything" |
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22 Jul 2006 06:11:28 AM |
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Uzbekistan Cuts Off Gas to Tajikistan |
BORROWING A PAGE FROM THE RUSSIANS? KARIMOV'S FIRST STEP IN DEFLECTING
POPULAR DISCONTENT VIA ISLAMIC EXTREMISM WITH A GREATER UZBEKISTAN
PROJECT?
Uzbekistan Cuts Off Gas to Tajikistan
=A9 2006 The Associated Press
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Uzbekistan cut off natural gas deliveries to
Tajikistan's capital and several major factories because of unpaid
debts, prompting Tajikistan to block the transit of Uzbek gas across
its territory, officials in the Central Asian nations said Thursday.
Western Tajikistan, including the capital Dushanbe, the town of
Tursunzade and several major factories have been cut off from gas
supplies since Wednesday, said Odiljon Salimjonov, a representative of
the state gas distributing company Tajikgaz.
Officials of the Uzbek state gas transport company Uztransgaz said on a
government Web site Thursday that the supplies were stopped after
"repeated warnings" over what they said was Tajikistan's $7.3 million
debt for gas delivered this year.
Salimjonov, however, said that as of June 1 the Tajik debt amounted to
$3 million.
Both sides said that after the gas cut, Tajikistan blocked the gas
pipeline that goes through a stretch of Tajik land to deliver gas to
eastern Uzbek regions. Uztransgaz said the move was illegal and
demanded the transit be resumed.
The energy infrastructure in Central Asia was built in Soviet times,
when borders between the now-independent countries were virtually
meaningless. That created a complex system of interlocking
dependencies, which is still in place 15 years after the fall of the
Soviet Union.
Central Asian countries frequently cut off energy supplies to each
other because of alleged nonpayment or withholding of resources.
Tajikistan, one of the poorest post-Soviet countries, heavily depends
on Uzbek gas deliveries.
Under a $40 million contract between the two ex-Soviet republics
Uzbekistan is to supply Tajikistan with 730 million cubic meters of
natural gas in 2006.
Uztransgaz said it already delivered to Tajikistan nearly a half of
that amount but has been paid only $11.5 million.
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