Hungarian company to provide Transdniestria with gas, minister says
A Hungarian-owned trading company will provide Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region with natural gas as a result of a request from Russia's energy minister, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday.
Tens of thousands of residents of Transdniestria, a sliver of territory run by pro-Russian separatists along Moldova's border with Ukraine, were plunged into an energy crisis on January 1 after expiry of the transit agreement for shipments of Russian natural gas via Ukraine.
In a press conference broadcast on Szijjarto's Facebook page, he said he has been approached by the Russian deputy prime minister responsible for energy about gas supplies and that he has also discussed the issue with his Moldovan counterpart.
Szijjarto did not specify which Hungarian-owned company would provide the gas and the ministry did not reply immediately to emailed questions about the agreement.
At the end of January, Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said that the European Union will provide €30 MM ($31.4 MM) to purchase and transport natural gas to Transdniestria and that Hungarian company MOL intended to sign a contract with Moldovagaz to supply gas to Transdniestria.
This month separatist authorities in Transdniestria said that the region started receiving gas supplies under a loan provided by Moscow and that Swiss-based MET Group's subsidiary MET Gas and Energy Marketing AG signed a short-term agreement to supply gas to Moldovagaz in February.
($1 = €0.9556)
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