Posted on 12/31/2006 2:05:27 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin2
Filed at 4:31 p.m. ET
MOSCOW (AP) -- Belarus and Russia's natural gas monopoly have signed a contract for 2007 gas supplies, averting a cutoff that was threatened in a rate hike dispute, the Interfax news agency quoted Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko as saying Monday.
OAO Gazprom had said it would halt deliveries to Belarus unless the former Soviet republic agreed to more than double the amount it had paid for gas in 2006.
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