Because of the decline in deliveries we are also forced to cut gas transit to Serbia and Bosnia by a similar rate of over 40 percent.

Normal conditions have resumed in both pipes, the quantity and pressure of the gas is stable.

Gas deliveries from Russia are now down by over 40 percent, mostly because gas pressure in the pipeline entering the Austrian-Hungarian border has also fallen.

The tariff for the transit of 1,000 cubic meters of gas has been raised from $1.09 to $1.6 for every 100 kilometers.

We are working on three documents - two contracts [on gas transit and deliveries] and an underlying intergovernmental protocol for 2006.

I caught him sniffing gas from the stove, so we had to put a lock on the gas cut-off valve.