Source: Avesta website, Dushanbe, in Russian 0855 gmt 22 Jun 09
Dushanbe, 22 June: The Uzbek Uztransgaz [gas transportation] company has increased gas supplies to Tajikistan, a
source in the Tojiktransgaz [Tajik gas transportation] open-joint stock company has told Avesta. The source said that the Uzbek side had met [Tajikistan] halfway after long talks. "The volume of gas supplies was increased on 19 June, and now it is 23,000 cu.m. per hour. Of them, 20,000 cu.m. per hour is being supplied in the southern direction and the rest for the needs of [northern] Sughd Region.