The gas was between Russia and Belarus has ended, declared Friday night the CEO of the Russian energy giant Gazprom Alexei Miller.
Gazprom and Belarus have been tied a dispute over natural gas supply payments and transit fee demands over the past few days, which threatened to disturb Russian gas supplies to parts of Europe in a smaller-scale version of the 2009 winter gas war between Russia and Ukraine.
According to Miller, who spoke at a news conference, as cited by Interfax, Gazpromrepresentatives have fixed transit conditions in a telephone conversation with members of the Belarus government and the state company Beltransgas.
Miller has promised that the annex to the respective contract sealing the negotiated settlement will be signed shortly, and that the signing will not be put off by his summer leave, which starts Saturday.
“We have determined the transit conditions, and there are no alternatives to those,” declared the Gazprom head.
