DUSHANBE, February 14, Asia-Plus – Tajik state energy company Barqi Tojik has denied information about suspension of electricity supplies from Kyrgyzstan as “unfounded.”
Rashid Gulov, the deputy engineer-in-chief at Barqi Tojik, told Asia-Plus today that Kyrgyzstan still continues supplying electrical power to Tajikistan at the rate of 500,000 kWh per day.
In the meantime, some media yesterday reported that Kyrgyz Energy and Industry Minister Saparbek Balkibekov announced suspension of electricity supplies to Tajikistan at a meeting of Kyrgyz government that was held in Bishkek on February 13.
According reports, the Kyrgyz minister allegedly noted that Tajikistan had refused to fulfill its obligations on an agreement reached in January, and therefore, Kyrgyzstan had suspended electricity supplies to Tajikistan.
We will recall that under an agreement reached between the two countries Kyrgyzstan had exported electricity to Tajikistan at the rate of 500,000 kWh per day since January 29. Kyrgyzstan was supposed to supply totaling 11 million kWh of electrical power to Tajikistan during the winter months. Kyrgyz electrical power has been supplied on condition that Tajikistan will compensate Kyrgyzstan for the supplied electrical power by supplying 55 million kWh of electricity in April-May.
