Uzbekistan has increased gas supplies to Tajikistan. Gas supplies to the country were increased when Tajikistan partly settled its debt to neighbouring Uzbekistan, Red Orbit reported citing Avesta.

The first deputy chairman of the SUE [state unitary enterprise] Tojikgas [Tajik gas], Shavqat Shoimov, has told Asia-Plus that about 35,000 cu.m. per hour (about 840,000 cu.m. per day) of Uzbek natural gas was coming to the country for several days already.

The representative of a gas distribution company said that the increase in gas supplies made it possible to resume work in the closed joint-stock company Tojikazot [Tajik nitrogen], where work had been suspended since late July.

Shavqat Shoimov said that now the Tajik aluminium company Talco was fully supplied with natural gas and that some gas was being delivered to the SUE Tojikcement.

"Now we are not going to ask Uzbekistan to increase gas supplies because the volume that is coming to Tajikistan is completely sufficient," he said, adding that gas would be supplied to residents'' houses, but only to those who have no debt for gas.