Uzbekistan to step out of Central Asian United Energy System.

TASHKENT, November 5 (Itar-Tass) --Uzbekistan is planning to step out
of the Central Asian United Energy System, the head of the regional
Coordinative Dispatch Centre of the State Joint Stock Company "
Uzbekenergo" Esso Sadullayev said in an article, published in the local
press on Thursday. According to him the Central Asian United Energy System
does not guarantee its national energy systems "protection from outer
activities ," which "pose a direct threat to its stability, security and
work reliability".
One cannot be sure today, that working in the United Energy System's
regime one is guaranteed from illegal takeoffs of electric energy as well
as secured the safety of inner energy systems and their protection from
outer influence. There exists a real threat to a stable and safe
functioning of the Uzbekistani energy system, and that puts an exit from
this system and the switch over to an independent mode of functioning on
the agenda, he underlined.
The Central Asian United Energy System was set up in 1991, then
comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan. In June 2003 Turkmenistan withdrew from the system. On
November 3, 2009 Duisenbai Turganov, the vice minister of energy and
mineral resources announced his country's decision to also step out of the
system.


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