The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, claimed that talks on a tripartite gas union initiative including Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan were going well and that the plan would improve energy security for the three countries, "RIA Novosti" reports.
Lavrov remarked that gas providers and people doing business involving gas would gain if transportation and cost arrangements were agreed upon. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Kasim-Jomart Tokayev met in November for talks on shipping Russian gas via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as well as creating a tripartite gas union, which Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Alexander Novak says has a lot of potential for gas partnership.
"Triple Alliance"
At the end of November 2022, Russia offered Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to create a "triple gas alliance." The Russian side stated that this proposal does not imply the supply of gas in exchange for political conditions, but is about coordinating commercial interests.
Energy Minister Jurabek Mirzamakhmudov in December, against the backdrop of the energy crisis that began in Uzbekistan with the onset of cold weather, said that Uzbekistan was negotiating to import gas from its neighbors - as part of a commercial contract, and not through "any kind of alliance or a union."
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