The CSE decided to allow Moldovagaz the transit of gas to Tiraspol. Prime Minister Dorin Recean: "Although it is a solution that does not solve the long -term problem, we will not block gas delivery and we will not let people freeze"

10 February 2025, Chișinău - The government will allow the transiting of gas from the border with Moldova to the Transnistrian region, based on a contract signed by the Moldovagaz stock company and a Hungarian company, MET Gas and Energy Marketing AG. The costs for the transit will be paid by Tiraspoltransgaz in advance. The solution was identified, after the left bank of Dniester had refused the European Union’s offer of 60 million euros for overcoming the energy crisis.

„The solution chosen by the Tiraspol regime means that the region’s residents will continue living in a state of unpredictability and worry about the supply of gas. This is a solution which does not solve the problem for long term. Nevertheless, we will not block the delivery of gas and will not leave the people on the left bank to freeze,’’ Prime Minister Dorin Recean said.

According to the decision by the Commission for Emergency Situations (CSE), the Moldovagaz stock company will conclude contracts on the sale and purchase of natural gas and will deliver it to the Tiraspoltransgaz Ltd Company, on condition that it receives the payments in advance for the gas and the transport services. Following the contract’s conclusion, the gas will be brought to the border with Moldova by the company from Hungary. Tiraspol will undertake the following actions, in order to show openness: releasing the political prisoners, settlement of the problem of the Rabnita-based lyceum, preservation of the Moldovan public TV channels in the grid and removal of the control posts set in 2022.

The first delivery from MET Gas and Energy Marketing AG might take place on 13 February. For 11-12 February, decision-makers ruled that Moldovagaz will sell, with payment in advance, 2 million cubic metres of gas to Tiraspoltransgaz and will borrow another 3 million cubic metres, which are to be returned till 31 March 2025.

„People saw what Russia means and what means to have the European Union with you. We proved that we want and have capacity to help the people on the left bank. We will continue taking rational decisions, in order to maintain the peace and good understanding all over the country,’’ the PM noted.

Another CSE’s decision deals with the delivery of electric generators to the Education and Research Ministry, Health Ministry and Labour and Social Protection Ministry. Those 15 generators were provided for free as humanitarian assistance by Germany and Lithuania, at a request by Moldova, through the European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism.