2012-02-20 17:51

Russians will not cut gas prices until Lithuania finds alternatives

Russia's gas company Gazprom will not cut prices for Lithuania until the country finds alternatives for Russian gas, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday.
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"Unless Lithuania has alternatives, (…) we will have prices dictated to us and they will not be reduced," she told journalists on Monday.

"Therefore, we should employ as many alternative energy sources as possible and secure the construction of a liquefied gas terminal in Lithuania," said Grybauskaitė.

Recent reports suggest that Gazprom decided to cut gas prices for some European consumers by 10 percent.

Lithuania's government plans to have a liquefied gas terminal operational in Klaipėda by the end of 2014, thus providing an alternative to Russian gas that Lithuania now gets via pipelines from Belarus.

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