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.