The consumers from the right bank of the Dniester will not pay Transdniestria’s debt for Russian natural gas, the president of Moldova-Gaz SA Ghennady Abashkin said.

The statement was made in the context of the latest reports that the International Commercial Arbitration Court of the Chamber of Trade and Industry of Russia ruled in favor of Gazprom in a case against Moldova-Gaz and ordered that the latter pay US$42 million of Transdniestria’s debt for gas.

Ghennady Abashkin said that under an agreement signed with Gazprom, the right and left banks of the Dniester pay for the consumed Russian gas separately. Moldova-Gaz only manages the supply of gas to Moldova.

According to Abashkin, the responsibility for the unauthorized supply of gas to Transdniestria and the intentional sale of gas at reduced prices must be born by the Transdniestrian economic entities that admitted this.

The president of Moldova-Gaz said that Transdniestria can pay for the Russian gas at the fixed price. According to statistics, Transdniestria’s exports in the first half of 2008 totaled US$500 million. “It is evident that the region has money to pay for the gas,” Abashkin said.

Transdniestria’s debt for gas over January-June 2008 rose by US$132.6 million. Moldova owes US$1.810 billion to Gazprom. Out of this sum, US$1.472,6 billion is Transdniestria’s debt.//REPORTER.MD



Publication date: 22 July 2008   

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