BISHKEK. The ‘Kyrgyzgaz’ joint-stock company and the ’Uztransgaz’ state company of Uzbekistan signed an agreement on providing Kyrgyzstan with the Uzbek gas uninterruptedly in 2003. A head of the ‘Kyrgyzgaz’ company, Kubanychbek Jusupov, told RFE/RL today, that Kyrgyzstan will buy the Uzbek gas paying 42 US dollars for 1,000 cubic meter. Payment in kind will be given for about 45 percent of the imported gas, the rest will be paid to Tashkent in a hard currency.