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MINSK, Belarus, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- If the gas price row between Russia and Belarus further escalates, supplies to Europe may be in danger, a top Belarus official said.
"We are interdependent," Belarus' Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said late Tuesday in Minsk after returning from failed gas price negotiations with Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom, according to Deutsche Welle Online. "If I don't have a domestic gas supply contract, Gazprom won't have a transit deal."
Russia is the largest supplier for gas to Western Europe, and Belarus is a main transit country. Germany, for example, receives its gas from pipelines through Belarus and Ukraine.
Belarus currently pays $47 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas from Gazprom, one of the lowest prices in the region; Gazprom wants to raise the price to $110 and wants to be handed a 50 percent share of the country's pipeline network. Western Europe pays over $200 for Russian gas.
The dispute is similar to recent rows Russia has had with Ukraine and Georgia over gas prices. The West has accused Russia in the past of using its energy supremacy as a foreign policy tool. Belarus, however, has been a traditional ally of Russia.
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