Uzbekistan Cuts Gas To Tajikistan

摘要

Uzbekistan cut natural gas deliveries to neighboring Tajikistan last week as the two sides failed to agree a new supply contract beginning this year and discord continues over Tajikistan’s plans for a new hydroelectric power plant that threatens to choke Uzbekistan’s access to local water sources. “We have stopped receiving gas from Uzbekistan,” said a spokesman for the Tajik government, which is entirely reliant on Uzbek energy imports. “We have been cut off.”