MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--Russia's natural gas monopoly OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) doesn't plan to revise its pricing plans for gas supplies to Belarus, a Gazprom spokesman told the Prime-Tass news agency Thursday.
At present, Belarus pays $100 for each 1,000 cubic meters of Russian gas. Under an agreement reached in 2006, Belarus will pay 67% of the average European gas price in 2008, 80% in 2009, 90% in 2010 and 100% in 2011. Currently, the average European price for Russian gas amounts to about $260/1,000 cubic meters.
Meanwhile, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has proposed keeping the gas price for 2008 at the current level.