The Polish government will on Tuesday approve an agreement with Russia on natural gas supplies initialed in Moscow on Sunday, said Waldemar Pawlak, a deputy Polish prime minister.
Moscow and Warsaw on Sunday agreed the text of the document in the Russian capital. The deal envisions that the volumes of Russian gas supplies to Poland will be increased up to 11 billion cubic meters from the current 9 bcm annually.
Russian gas will be supplied until 2022, and transited until 2019. For the document to come into force, it is to be signed by the two countries' governments and gas monopolies Gazprom and PGNiG.
An estimated 65-70 percent of all natural gas consumed in Poland comes from Russia.
WARSAW, October 19 (RIA Novosti)
