{"id":2735,"date":"2020-12-17T18:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=140531"},"modified":"2020-12-17T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:04:45","slug":"uzbek-president-orders-cut-in-gas-exports-as-winter-shortage-threatens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/17\/uzbek-president-orders-cut-in-gas-exports-as-winter-shortage-threatens\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbek President Orders Cut In Gas Exports As Winter Shortage Threatens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/87057d87-67fc-4066-9987-8ede170a0f86_cx0_cy8_cw0_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>TASHKENT &#8212; Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has ordered his government to cut natural-gas exports to ensure the availability of gas at home in Central Asia&#8217;s most populous nation this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Mirziyoev publicly laid into the government during an online government session on December 16 for what he called &#8220;failure to properly prepare for winter season&#8221; and said there was currently a domestic shortfall of 20 million cubic meters of gas a day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all know that problems with natural gas are not just happening today but have been bothering us for 30 years now,&#8221; Mirziyoev said. &#8220;But no one has the right to make excuses. Our people need gas, and many of them are paying for it honestly and on time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move could reportedly translate into 7-8 million cubic meters of natural gas for Uzbek citizens this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were also tasked with transferring into investors&#8217; control some 25 natural-gas fields in the country and buying an additional 217,000 tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG).<\/p>\n<p>This year has been unusually cold in Uzbekistan, and power outages have been reported across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/17\/uzbek-president-orders-cut-in-gas-exports-as-winter-shortage-threatens\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TASHKENT \u2014 Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev has ordered his government to cut natural-gas exports to ensure the availability of gas at home in Central Asia\u2019s most populous nation\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}