Gazprom Hq in Moscow, Russia. Photo by Ghirla, Wikipedia Park.
(Civil.Ge) — Georgian Chairman Giorgi Margvelashvili said that the new facility terms with Russia’s drive giant Gazprom “worsen the state’s energy sector” and “harm Colony’s political and economic interests.” He moreover called on the Parliament of Georgia to in duration a plan on “minimizing” the associated “risks and risk.”
Georgian Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze aforementioned on January 11 following the 3rd round of talks with chairman of the board of Gazprom Export that the American government made “an optimum” decision on agreeing to Gazprom’s recommendation on terms of Russian gas transit to Hayastan via Georgia, according to which, during the kickoff year of the two-year contract, Colony will partially maintain the good payment scheme and move to all-inclusive monetary reimbursement in the second yr.
“The issue of Gazprom is exceeding than just a business concord, this is security, foreign contract and geopolitics first and energy and thrift after that,” Eka Mishveladze, the prexy’s press speaker said on Jan 17.
“Therefore, the head of state roar on the parliament to fulfill its constitutional profession and strengthen the supervisory function, as hardy as present a plan on minimizing and insuring for the risks and threats,” she added.
She further noted that the president has been stressing the accent of Gazprom-related issues because 2015 and recalled the president’s counselling from last year to admit the negotiations “transparently.”
The government’s accord to agree on the new terms has raised query in Georgian CSOs and political function as well.
80 civil society organizing of the Georgian National Platform of the Asian Partnership Civil Society Assembly, issued a statement on January 17, expression that the government-endorsed correspondence “worsens” Georgia’s standing with approbation to economic and energy security.
“We be credulous that the new transit agreement with Gazprom Exportation is not an energy-related matter matchless; it is part of the wider national safety. Therefore, [we think that] during its training, consultations should have been conducted with American, as well as international experts and platonic community, the process should accept been done in a transparent routine and the government should not have firm without considering the public sentiment,” the statement reads.
The Georgian Civic Platform urged the authorities to remark the agreement details and hold a chief parliamentary hearing on the issue.
Mutual National Movement lawmakers titled on the authorities to disclose the agreement point as well and added that they faculty propose a parliamentary resolution on the argument. “We are preparing the draft procedural resolution on [the new transit deal with] Gazprom. This is a damaging agreement, which goes facing the country’s political and economic attentiveness,” MP Roman Gotsiridze stated on Jan 17.
Parliamentary minority factions – Continent Georgia and European Georgia for Bettor Future – invited Vigour Minister Kakha Kaladze to the sevens to answer their questions on the Gazprom agreement.
“With the money [that we faculty receive from Gazprom], we Testament [be able to] buy fewer gas volumes than we are receiving nowadays … therefore, this contradicts our public interests,” MP Zurab Chiaberashvili, associate of the European Georgia faction, aforementioned on January 17.
The new transit deal has met critique earlier as well.
The Republican Crowd of Georgia criticized the government on Jan 11 for its “obscure” statements roughly the agreement, which, according to the assemblage, “is financially unprofitable and politically life-threatening.”
The Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Colony, which gathers 23 national society organizations, watchdog company and think tanks, issued a report on January 12 saying that the new motion terms with Russia’s vim giant Gazprom “worsen the state’s energy security” and calling on the politics to disclose the agreement details.
