Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced today that he was informed that there will be no suspension of gas from Azerbaijan to Serbia.
"Our brothers and friends from Azerbaijan have just informed me that regardless of the objective problems caused by force majeure, there will be no suspension of gas to Serbia. Many thanks to Azerbaijan and to President Ilham Aliyev, whom I expect with great impatience in Belgrade soon," Vučić wrote on social network X.
Vučić said yesterday that he received a notification from Azerbaijan that Serbia can no longer count on the 1,7 million cubic meters of gas that arrived every day.
Yesterday, after a meeting with the US Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, Richard Verma, in Belgrade, Vučić said that Serbia will begin to spend much more and more seriously on its reserves.
"Now it turned out to be smart that we collected reserves. I hope that in a month or two, they will fix this. If not, expect that in the next four months, we will have to add and use up reserves. There will be no shortage of gas, nor of oil As you can see, bad news never goes away alone," Vučić said yesterday.
Đedović Handanović: Serbia has enough oil, gas from Azerbaijan is not arriving due to technical problems
The Minister of Energy of Serbia, Dubravka Đedović Handanović, said this morning that the citizens and the economy of Serbia have no reason to worry about the introduction of sanctions on the Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS), because there are enough reserves of crude oil and derivatives, and that they will work to ensure that there are no fluctuations in the market. .
"I expect rational behavior from all participants in the market, companies in the oil sector, but also financial institutions and banks," the minister told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).
According to her, Serbia is counting on the US administration to help ensure that the sanctions do not affect Serbia and to convince investors that this will be the case, which is "of absolute importance for us".
The minister pointed out that "every word counts" in the decision on sanctions, so Serbia expects additional explanations from the US in order to later discuss the solution with Russia, which has been Serbia's energy partner for the past decades.
Commenting on the interruption of gas supplies from Azerbaijan, she said that the company there is having technical problems, that there is no room for any interpretations, and that it is now difficult to say how long it will last.
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