The U.S. Department of State spokesman Sean McCormack said on January 23 that the United States is not aware of the causes behind the explosions that hit two gas pipelines in Russia’s North Ossetian republic, which cut off the gas supply to Georgia and Armenian on January 22.
?At this point, we don’t know the cause of these explosions. We encourage the Russian authorities to look into it. They have referred to them as terrorist acts. But regardless right now of what the cause of the explosions were, what was important is that Georgia and Armenia’s neighbors came together to come to their neighbor’s aid in a time of crisis. And you know, we played a role in that, proudly so. And the Russian authorities have said that the gas pipeline should be repaired in two or three days time, and the Georgian people and the Armenian people can look forward to a resumption of gas flows to their countries,? Sean McCormack said at a news briefing.
?There were a lot of phone calls. The Ambassador on the ground in Georgia was working with Georgian officials. Assistant Secretary Fried was involved. Mr. Bryza [Deputy Assistant Secretary] was involved as well as a lot of other officials,? he added.
The U.S. Department of State spokesman also said that ?Azerbaijani gas is headed into Armenia.? But he did not elaborated on this issue and did not specify how the Azeri gas reaches Armenia.
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