17 November 2006
Lukashenko tasks government with looking for "compensatory reserves" to cushion possible gas price hike

Aleksandr Lukashenko said on November 17 that he had tasked the government with looking for "compensatory reserves" to use them if Russia raised its gas price for Belarus.

This money should not be taken from enterprises or the population, the Belarusian leader warned while visiting OAO Belshina, a tire company in Bobruisk, Mogilyov region. "It is necessary to look for other sources," he suggested. //BelaPAN