"We are not commenting. There will be no comments on that," Gazprom spokesman Sergey Kupriyanov told BNS.
"We have a constructive attitude. What more can be said? We will definitely not comment on the Lithuanian president's words," another representative of the Russian company told BNS.
Grybauskaitė said earlier on Thursday that Gazprom had presented the Lithuanian government with a list of impossible requirements and that with the Russian supplier showing no willingness to negotiate, no negotiations were taking place.
It is possible that Gazprom is asking the government to drop legal disputes over the activities of Lietuvos Dujos (Lithuanian Gas), in which the Russian company owns a significant stake, and its management and a 5-billion-litas (EUR 1.45b) claim filed by Lithuania against the Russian supplier with the Stockholm arbitration tribunal. Gazprom also wants to sign a new long-term gas supply contract and a new agreement on gas transit to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. The government is not satisfied with a price discount offered by the supplier either.
It is said that a postponement of the implementation of the EU's Third Energy Package is no longer being discussed. According to unofficial sources, Gazprom has realized that this process is irreversible and is now trying to steer the talks in a direction favorable to it.
It is possible that Gazprom is demanding huge compensation for its 37-percent stake in Amber Grid, a new company into which Lietuvos Dujos has spun off its gas transmission operations and which the Russian company will have to exit by November 2014. According to Russian media reports, Gazprom is considering to offer to sell these shares to the Lithuanian government.
Grybauskaitė has said that Gazprom's promises to reduce the price of natural gas for Lithuania came too late because the price will go down once Lithuania wins its Stockholm arbitration case and builds a liquefied natural gas terminal in Klaipėda.
The Lithuanian government received Gazprom's proposals last Friday, a week after a meeting between Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičus and the Russian company's CEO, Alexey Miller, in Vilnius. Miller then said that further talks would deal with Gazprom's investments in Lithuania, gas transit to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and "commercial issues".
The government expects Lithuania's answers to Gazprom to be ready by Monday.
