Kyrgyzstan to Complete Sale of Gas Pipeline Network by Month End

Kyrgyzstan is expected to close the sale procedure of its natural gas network to Gazprom by the end of this month, Kyrgyz Prime Minister Zhantoro Satybaldiyev was quoted by Reuters as saying.

In December Gazprom had said it wanted to buy 100 percent of Kyrgyz state gas company .

"The process of negotiations is under way, and I hope that during March we will finish it," Satybaldiyev told Reuters in an interview. "Only technical issues have remained to be resolved."

"Our experts have already met in Moscow, and now we will host such a meeting on March 18-19."