US says it intervened in latest European gas crisis - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US officials intervened to help sort out the latest European natural gas crisis that erupted after Russian supplies to Georgia were cut by pipeline explosions, the State Department said.

Natural gas flowed into Georgia via an alternative pipeline passing through neighboring Azerbaijan after the cutoff, which sparked accusations from Tbilisi of sabotage by Moscow. Armenia had also been affected.
"We did talk to the parties that were involved in the issue over the weekend," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters, adding there were "a lot of phone calls."
He said the American officials involved included Dan Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, his deputy Matthew Bryza, and US diplomats in Georgia.
"Regardless right now what the cause of the explosions were, what is important is that Georgia and Armenia's neighbors came together to come to their neighbors' aid in a time of crisis," McCormack said.
"And we played a role in that, proudly so," he said.
McCormack said there was no word on what caused the pipeline explosions which the Russians have called terrorist acts. "We encourage the Russian authorities to look into it," he said.