Russia, Turkmenistan Presidents Fail to Strike Natural Gas Deal

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) toast Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov (R) upon the end of their talks in the city of Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan, 13 September 2009.

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev, and his Turkmenistan counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, have failed to reach a new agreement on natural gas supplies.

The meeting between the two presidents ended without the fixing of a date for resuming the Turkmenistan gas supplies for Russia, Interfax has reported. Medvedev and Berdimuhamedov met Sunday in the Turkmenistan city of Turkmenbashi on the Caspian Sea.

No agreement has been reached on the natural gas prices that Russia will pay to Turkmenistan as well.

An assistant of the Russian President is quoted as saying that the reaching of a gas agreement had not been the purpose of the meeting of the two presidents.

Turkmenistan's gas supplies to Russia were terminated in April 2009 after a pipeline explosion on Turkmenistan territory. The Central Asian state blamed the Russian gas giant Gazprom for the blast because its employees sharply reduced the volume of gas they received from Turkmenistan without a warning.

 

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