Plan for payment of debt to Gazprom "by end of year"

BELGRADE Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vucic has said the talks with Gazprom officials about paying the debt to that company had been "successful." He added that "the projection of the debt payment would be done by the end of 2013." Plan for payment of debt to Gazprom "by end of year" The talks focused on Serbia's debt towards Gazprom from 1995 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2001, the current debt of EUR 80 million and the EUR 224 million that Srbijagas owes Gazprom, Vucic said on Monday, according to RTS. Vucic met with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller on Monday, and the Serbian government stated after the meeting the two had stressed the importance of the signing of the agreement on funding and construction of the South Stream pipeline and the agreement on gas transport between Srbijagas and Gazprom. The start of Seouth Stream's construction is planned for November 24, and it is one of the biggest investments in Serbia in the last few decades, the government said. The work will be done by Serbian companies. Also, the two discussed additional legs of the pipeline, towards Macedonia and the Serb Republic in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Alexey Miller is seen during his meeting with Aleksandar Vucic on Monday in Belgrade (Tanjug) Tanjug

Plan for payment of debt to Gazprom "by end of year"

The talks focused on Serbia's debt towards Gazprom from 1995 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2001, the current debt of EUR 80 million and the EUR 224 million that Srbijagas owes Gazprom, Vučić said on Monday, according to RTS.

Vučić met with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller on Monday, and the Serbian government stated after the meeting the two had stressed the importance of the signing of the agreement on funding and construction of the South Stream pipeline and the agreement on gas transport between Srbijagas and Gazprom.

The start of Seouth Stream's construction is planned for November 24, and it is one of the biggest investments in Serbia in the last few decades, the government said.

The work will be done by Serbian companies.

Also, the two discussed additional legs of the pipeline, towards Macedonia and the Serb Republic in Bosnia-Herzegovina.