Moscow and Minsk Agreed on Gas Supplies to Belarus until 2021

The gas supply volume from Russia to Belarus and its transit in 2020 will remain at the level of 2019. Moscow and Minsk negotiated a gas price only for the first 2 months of 2020. On the last day of 2019, on Tuesday, December 31, Moscow and Minsk agreed to extend the gas supply to Belarus and its transit through the territory of the republic until 2021. The corresponding agreement was reached in Moscow at the meeting of the head of Russian energy company Gazprom Alexey Miller with Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Vladimir Semashko and Belarusian Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich. According to the signed documents, gas supply and transit volumes in 2020 will remain at the level of 2019. The parties also agreed on a gas price for Belarus for January and February 2020. Lukashenko talks with Medvedev and Novak on oil On the same day, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko had a telephone conversation with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The result of the conversation was “an agreement on organizing concrete work on deliveries of hydrocarbon resources to Belarus,” the press service of Lukashenko said. The President of Belarus also discussed the same matters with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak. The existing contracts for oil supply expire on December 31. At the same time, “contracts regulating work in the oil and gas sector were not concluded as of January 1,” the press service noted. Earlier, Lukashenko instructed the leadership of the Belarusian petrochemical complex "to ensure oil supply from alternative sources in the coming days." "First of all, we are talking about deliveries by rail from ports in the Baltic, as well as involving the Druzhba pipeline for alternative deliveries," the press service of the Belarusian President said. DW