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Armenia’s Russian gas stops for 11 days from Tuesday; Gazprom Armenia says Iranian volumes and storage cover it

Gazprom Armenia said on Monday that deliveries of Russian gas will be suspended from 15 to 25 September for planned preventive and overhaul work on the section of the North Caucasus-South Caucasus pipeline inside Russia, and that consumers will be supplied ‘without restrictions’ from internal reserves and additional volumes from Iran. The same day the State Revenue Committee reported that its chairman, Eduard Hakobyan, had signed in Iran with Iran’s customs chief Foroud Asgari a protocol on exchanging advance data on goods and vehicles, the ‘simplified customs corridor’, and the sides agreed to extend the joint use of the Meghri-Nordooz crossing.

Armenia’s Russian gas stops for 11 days from Tuesday; Gazprom Armenia says Iranian volumes and storage cover it

The company gave no volumes: neither the storage it will draw on nor the Iranian gas it will add, Armenpress’s report of the announcement shows. Both the work and the section are on the Russian side; the notice dates the resumption to 25 September.

Better conditions for law-abiding traders and faster control are the protocol’s stated purpose. Under it the two services will exchange advance information on cargo and vehicles moving through both territories, and the committee said the sides had set out the steps to launch the system as soon as possible. Hakobyan’s delegation visited the Nordooz crossing, where Armenia presented its customs digitisation; monitoring the volume of transit across the border, and mechanisms to raise it, were on the table too.

‘The mutual contribution to the two countries’ establishment as important regional logistics centres is also important in this context,’ Hakobyan said, in Armenpress’s Russian rendering. ‘This mutual development and close cooperation are of great importance for bilateral economic growth and sustainable regional development.’

The company gave no volumes: neither the storage it will draw on nor the Iranian gas it will add, Armenpress’s report of the announcement shows.

Asgari holds the customs service as a deputy minister of economy and finance. The protocol carries no date for the launch of the data exchange; the extension of the Meghri-Nordooz agreement carries no term in the committee’s account.

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