{"id":8466,"date":"2009-01-12T12:38:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T09:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=8466"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:32:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:32:48","slug":"georgia-stops-gas-flow-to-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/01\/12\/georgia-stops-gas-flow-to-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Stops Gas Flow to Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, January 12, 2009<br \/>\nUpdated at 12 January 2009 1:39<\/p>\n<p>Moscow Time.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia stopped Russian natural-gas transit flows to Armenia on Friday after a pipeline was damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia said the stoppage was to carry out emergency repair work on the main Kazakh-Saguramo gas pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Repair work on the pipe &#8220;will take approximately five days, the transit will continue after that,&#8221; Georgian Energy Minister Alexander Khetaguri said in an interview Sunday. The damage occurred in the town of Gardabani, about 40 kilometers south of the capital Tbilisi.<\/p>\n<p>Gazprom ships its gas to Armenia through Georgia, which gets 10 percent of transit volumes as fees.<\/p>\n<p>Gazprom and its Armenian venture ArmRosgazprom offered to help Georgia repair the damaged link to resume supplies &#8220;in the shortest time,&#8221; it said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia has some gas reserves that it could use while repairs are being made, Khetaguri said.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/article\/1009\/42\/373462.htm\">The Moscow Times<\/span> \u00bb  Issue 4061 \u00bb  \t<span class=\"date\">12 January 2009<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, January 12, 2009 Updated at 12 January 2009 1:39 Moscow Time. Georgia stopped Russian natural-gas transit flows to Armenia on Friday after a pipeline was damaged. Georgia said the stoppage was to carry out emergency repair work on the main Kazakh-Saguramo gas pipeline. Repair work on the pipe &#8220;will take approximately five days, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":60691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-georgia-caucasus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}