“You will no doubt understand that we do not comment on contracts, talks etc. with partners,” Adrian Schaffranietz, a spokesman for E.ON Ruhrgas, told BNS.
“Lietuvos Dujos has not been notified about the content of the letter hence we will make no comments,” Sigita Petrikonytė-Jurkūnienė, the company’s spokeswoman, told BNS.
Lithuania’s government said earlier on Monday that a draft memorandum mentioned in the media had been sent to the Energy Ministry by Achim Saul, a representative of E.ON Rurhgas and chairman of Lithuania’s natural gas import and distribution company.
The draft, a copy of which has been made available to BNS, says that Gazprom would agree to lower the price of natural gas supplied to Lithuania by 20 percent if Lithuania agreed to extend its long-term gas supply contract with the Russian concern until 2020 and to guarantee reliable transit of gas to Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. Also, Gazprom reportedly proposes to envisage a possibility to delay the unbundling of Lietuvos Dujos’ ownership by one year, until October 31, 2015.
According to the draft, Lithuania and Gazprom would “freeze the running legal procedures at Lithuanian courts or at arbitration courts either against each other or against Lietuvos Dujos and its management and members of the Board of Directors until negotiations” on the long-term contract and transit to Kaliningrad were finished.
“In any case, such freezing shall not be longer than until October 2014, unless a mutual agreement is reached to completely stop said procedures”, the document reportedly reads.
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Monday that „nobody paid attention“ to this document since it was void.
