The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan officially spoke about a "tripartite gas union" between Kazakhstan, Russia and Uzbekistan, Zakon.kz reports.
Earlier it was reported that the "tripartite gas union" of Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan could be expanded to include other countries. This was stated by the Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Birichevsky.
"The initiative to form trilateral cooperation between Kazakhstan, Russia and Uzbekistan in the gas industry in November 2022 was announced by the Russian Federation. At the same time, there were no official proposals from either the Russian or Uzbek sides," said the official representative of the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan Shyngys Ilyasov.
He specified that "cooperation in the gas sector with these countries is carried out in a bilateral format on the basis of mutually beneficial partnerships."
"Given that the gas transmission system of Kazakhstan has free capacities for the transit of Russian gas in the direction of Uzbekistan, an Action Plan was signed between the government of Kazakhstan and PJSC Gazprom to organize work to prepare the main gas pipeline "Central Asia - Center" for the transport of Russian gas to the Republic of Uzbekistan" Ilyasov explained.
Thus, as the official representative of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan emphasized, "today, work is underway on the technical preparation of the Kazakh section of the Central Asia-Center gas pipeline for transporting Russian gas through Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan."
CentralasianLIGHT.org
August 14, 2023