Dvorkovich said the return of Belarus an advance payment for gas – RBC

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich

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Russia returned to Belarus advance payment for Russian natural gas. About it journalists were told by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, reports TASS.

“We do not expect payment in advance, we had no need for advance payment”, — he stressed. According to him, the payment was returned back to Belarus.

the fact that Belarus took Russia’s advance payment for Russian natural gas, said the press Secretary of the Prime Minister of the Republic Vladislav Sytsevich 8 Dec. Minsk “is interested in the soonest resolution of the situation”, it was transferred an advance payment, he said.

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In may this year the company “Gazprom transgaz Belarus”, which belongs to “Gazprom” has addressed in Arbitration court of Belarus with a complaint against the delay of payment of gas. Earlier, the head of the Ministry of energy of Russia said that the debt of Belarus for delivered in four months gas was $ 125 million.

Belarus, in turn, denied this information. The Minsk claimed that last year in the framework of the intergovernmental agreement, the parties had to reduce the price from $ 132 to 73 per 1 thousand cubic meters.

Later the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev said that the discount on gas for Belarus is not available. In mid-October, had a telephone conversation with Medvedev Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov, in which the parties confirmed the retention of the mechanism of formation of gas prices for commercial organizations of Belarus, which operated last year.