Serbia secures three-month extension of gas supply from Gazprom, says energy minister

ATHENS, June 5 (Reuters) - Serbia has secured an additional supply of gas from Gazprom for another three months until late September, Serbia's energy minister said late on Thursday.

An extension for another three months after June 30 has been confirmed, Energy Minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic was cited by Tanjug agency as saying, after meeting the chairman of the board of directors of Gazprom Aleksej Miller in Saint Petersburg.

"This is important for our country, for our citizens, for our economy, because these are stable deliveries, extremely affordable, but also because of the flexibility and the quantities they carry," Handanovic was quoted as saying.

Serbia had secured in March a three-month extension of its gas contract with Russia.

Cheaper imports of Russian gas cover up to 90% of Serbia's needs, though Belgrade has sought to diversify supply with gas from Azerbaijan and liquefied natural gas from terminals in Greece.

(Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Kim Coghill)