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Tue 11 Nov 2009Russia and EU agree on energy supply alert system
RUSSIA AND the EU agreed yesterday to create an alert system to warn of impending energy supply problems, amid mounting fears of a repeat of January’s gas crisis.
The deal signed in Moscow obliges Russia and the EU to notify each other of possible disruption to gas, oil or electricity supplies, and to work together to restore proper fuel flows. The early-warning system is intended to help prevent a repeat of last winter’s debacle, when Russia cut the gas supply to Ukraine for failing to pay its bills, and then turned off gas flow to the EU after accusing Kiev of siphoning off the fuel as it passed through its pipelines.
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