Uzbek Meeting Tackles Petrol Shortages in East
Posted on: Sunday, 28 August 2005, 15:00 CDT
Excerpt from report by Uzbek Namangan TV on 19 August
[Presenter] Problems have emerged with oil supply after 10 August, causing discontent among people. A meeting held at the Namangan mayor's office has discussed the causes and ways of resolving the problem.
[Correspondent over video of the meeting] The meeting, chaired by Ahmadjon Fozilov, a deputy governor, discussed petrol shortages that occurred on 15 and 18 August at the region's filling stations. It was noted that some measures had been taken to prevent similar shortages in the future.
[Passage omitted: background.]
Petrol was in short supply on 16 and 18 August because of interruptions in the petrol supply from the Fargona oil refinery for some reasons. A total of 242 filling stations operate in Namangan Region.
They are supplied with petrol by demand. However, the reality proves the opposite. Some businessmen are artificially engineering petrol shortages by not selling the petrol at their filling stations. Checks by Uzdavneftegaz [Uzbek state oil and gas agency] proves this.
Due to these violations, not only the trade in oil products becomes unmanageable, but the level of cash incomes also goes down. The owners of some filling stations use millions of soms in cash proceeds from petrol sales as they like, instead of putting them in banks. Some evidence supporting this has been gathered by law- enforcement officers.
It was noted [at the meeting] that procrastination and dishonesty in petrol provision often occurred at petroleum storage depots. The head of the Toraqorgon unitary petroleum storage depot came under particular criticism. The meeting said that additional measures were aiming to normalize the petrol supply.
The meeting adopted decisions ordering a fair distribution of petrol, which should be available for sale in time; the prevention of the illegal petrol trade, and the handing of cash proceeds to the bank within the set time.
The future situation at filling stations will show if these decisions are implemented.
Source: BBC Monitoring Central Asia
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