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ArmRosgazprom resumes electricity supplies to Georgia

YEREVAN, February 1 (RIA Novosti, Gamlet Matevosyan) – Russian-Armenian joint venture ArmRosgazprom resumed electric energy supplies to Georgia after more than a week of disruption, a spokesman for the company said Wednesday.

Shushan Sardaryan said natural gas supplies to Armenia via Georgia resumed Tuesday and, in accordance with agreements, Armenia resumed electricity supplies to Georgia Wednesday.

Russian natural gas and electricity supplies to Georgia and Armenia were cut off January 22 when two explosions hit the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia and a power line in southern Russia.

Sardaryan said Armenia currently supplies Georgia with 380,000 kWh of electricity daily. She added that Armenia is receiving 375,000 cu m of natural gas hourly via the repaired pipeline, an amount that fully meets the country’s standard energy consumption.

Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili said Tuesday he was surprised by Vladimir Putin’s comments regarding the reaction of Georgian authorities to the January 22 blasts.

At the annual Kremlin news conference Tuesday, Putin said that Russia had received nothing but fierce criticism from Georgia at a time when Russian experts were working round-the-clock in freezing temperatures to repair the gas pipeline to Georgia.

Georgian authorities said Russia had orchestrated the incident – a claim that the Russian Foreign Ministry and energy giant Gazprom have dismissed – and West-leaning President Mikheil Saakshavili urged the world to view Russia as an unreliable energy supplier, saying it had failed to tell the truth about the blasts.

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