UzA
December 15

he December interruptions in the supply of fuel and lubricants have caused considerable difficulties to private car owners, as well as to organizations and enterprises.

According to the first deputy general director of the Uzbek oil products joint-stock company, Qochqor Shermatov, the supply mechanism failed on 3 December, when a railway scheduling failure meant that oil products from refineries did not come on time.

At present the situation is normal. For example, there was 160-170 tonnes left from the fuel and lubricants supplied to the city and Region of Tashkent on 12 December, Shermatov said.

Shermatov also declined the suggestion that the interruptions in supply were in response to the increasing weakening of the som against the dollar since 1 November. "These events are in no way interlinked," he said in an interview to Pravda Vostoka daily, "and the residents of the republic are not threatened with a rise in the price of fuel and lubricants in the near future."

At present A-76 petrol costs 200 soms per litre, Ai-93 petrol 220 soms.

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