Uzbekistan suspends electric power supplies to Tajikistan

DUSHANBE, February 6 (Itar-Tass) – Uzbekistan has suspended electric power supplies to neighbouring Tajikistan that is experiencing global energy crisis, the deputy head of the Tajik state-run electricity provider Barki Tojik, Rashid Gulov, said on Wednesday.

This is a short-term suspension caused by Uzbekistan


At the request of the Tajik government and President Emomali Rakhmon Turkmenistan doubled electric power export to Tajikistan to 6.6 million kilowatt-hours per day, Gulov said.

In compliance with an intergovernmental agreement Ashgabat will supply 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours to Tajikistan in winter/spring.

ITAR-TASS