Lithuanian authorities asked Gazprom to clarify certain aspects of its application before it could be approved to bid in the Dujos tender.
Published:
23 July 2002 y., Tuesday
Lithuania will not bow to pressure from Gazprom, the sole pretender for 34 percent of gas utility Lietuvos Dujos, and could delay the sale if the gas giant offers too little for the stake, the government said.
Gazprom and a Lithuanian partner, gas distributor Dujotekana, submitted the only application to bid in a tender for the Dujos stake.
Local media reports cited officials of the Russian firm saying they would offer significantly less than the price a German consortium agreed to pay in May for an equal stake in the utility. Ruhrgas and E.ON Energie paid 116 million litas ($33.78 million) for their 34 percent stake in Dujos, placed another 34 million litas in an escrow account that the government could draw after meeting certain conditions and pledged to invest 70 million litas in a new issue of Dujos shares.
"With the Western strategic investor on board there is already a certain stability and we are no longer alone negotiating with Gazprom, so now it's easier to resist the psychological pressure we have long felt regarding this privatization and still feel," Economy Minister Petras Cesna told a news conference.
But he noted that official talks had not yet started with Gazprom, which he hoped could help ensure stable gas supplies and prices as well as "more political reliability," given that the Russian government has not yet signed a long-term gas-supply treaty with Lithuania.
Dujotekana has said it was aiming to acquire 9 percent of the gas utility while its Russian partner would buy 25 percent, as required by tender conditions.
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