AKIPRESS.COM - Uzbekistan and Russian energy company Gazprom have agreed terms for Uzbek natural gas supplies to Gazprom for five years, media report.

Miller, who visited Uzbekistan for talks with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, said they had discussed a contract spelling out the terms of supplies, but provided no details.

Gazprom bought 6.2 billion cubic metres of gas from Uzbekistan last year.

President Mirziyoyev on March 29 received Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom Aleksey Miller in Tashkent.

They discussed expansion of the mutually beneficial cooperation on development of the oil and gas complex in Uzbekistan, including in the framework of the programme on increasing extraction of hydrocarbons for 2017-2021.