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Gazprom Gives Serbia 60 Days Reuters BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Gazprom gave Serbia 60 days to propose how to repay a $255 million debt for gas purchased during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic, an official of Serbia's oil monopoly said Friday. Naftna Industrija Srbije general manager Dimitrije Vukcevic said the debt was accumulated from 1994 to 2000, and since then all gas purchases had been paid for promptly, Tanjug news agency reported. Milosevic was ousted in 2000. Until Dec. 1, Gazprom, Serbia's sole gas supplier under a deal made between Belgrade and Moscow during Milosevic's tenure as president of the country, will continue supplying gas to Serbia, Vukcevic said. Gazprom has threatened several times to cut supplies because of the debt. Gazprom will supply 165 million cubic meters of gas in October and 236 million in November, but at new higher prices, Vukcevic, who just returned from a three-day trip to Russia for negotiations with the Russian partner, told reporters. Prices had gone up by $11 and $12 per 1,000 cubic meters for October and November, respectively, because of the new trends on the world oil market, the manager said. He said Gazprom had expressed interest in purchasing stakes in some Serb companies in exchange for the debt, mentioning the fertilizer plant in Pancevo near Belgrade and a methanol plant in Kikinda, northern Serbia. NIS will ask for an 11 percent increase in the domestic price to make up for the higher purchase price, Vukcevic said. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/30/041.html --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
