MOSCOW Oct 9: Russia s fuel arid energy ministry says It needs 34 trillion rouble (about 30 billion US dollar), to Imple ment an ambitious long-term development programme lor the troubled energy sector, reports Reuter.

"A huge amount of work has to be carried out to Implement the wide ranging transforma Uons In the fuel and energy complex called for In the pro gramme.' It said in a document obtained by Reuters yesterday

More than 90 per cent of the

amount required should be In the form of capital investment, mostly from domestic resources The programme, covering projects up to the end of the century, also needed state support It said.

■Most of the necessary re sources must be earned by the fuel and energy complex itself., il »< do not manage to stabilise t his I wise ot the Russian econ omv the country's entire social and industrial structure will be threatened." It added.