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Vučić: Azerbaijan has suspended gas supplies to Serbia

Vučić: Azerbaijan has suspended gas supplies to Serbia

Azerbaijan has suspended gas supplies to Serbia due to some problems it is facing, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced on Saturday.

"We have been informed by Azerbaijan that, due to the problems they are having, from today we can no longer count on the 1.7 million cubic meters of gas that comes to our country every day," Vučić said.

He added that Serbia will now start spending its reserves until Azerbaijan resolves the problems.

"It was smart that we accumulated reserves. I hope that in a month or two they will fix this. If not, calculate that in the next four months we will have to increase and use the reserves. There will be no shortage of either gas or oil," Vučić said.

Azerbaijan's decision comes a day after the United States placed the Serbian Oil Industry on a sanctions list, insisting that the Serbian company should not continue to be owned by Russia.

Serbia signed a natural gas supply agreement with Azerbaijan in September 2024, as part of efforts to diversify supply sources and reduce dependence on Russian gas, on which it has relied mainly for more than a quarter of a century.

Serbia and Azerbaijan signed a strategic partnership agreement in November 2023. Serbian Energy Minister Dubravka Handanović Gjedović said in September that during the winter, Serbia would be able to count on secure deliveries of around one million cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan. The gas from Azerbaijan is delivered to Serbia through a new pipeline in Bulgaria, which is partly financed by the European Union (EU)./REL

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