RUSSIA TO CUT BOSNIAN GAS DELIVERIES.

An official for Intergaz, a Russian company responsible for gas deliveries to Bosnia, said on March 31 that gas supplies to that country would be cut by one-fourth beginning on April 1. An earlier reduction of the same magnitude was implemented on February 24, meaning that gas deliveries by the company have dropped from 1.3 million cubic meters to about 700,000. Bosnia has not paid a $12.3 million debt for 1996 deliveries, the official said. (Itar-Tass, March 31)

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