OREANDA-NEWS. November 23, 2012. This was stated by Premier of Moldova Vladimir Flat. According to him, Chisinau lacks time and opportunity to sign the new contract with Gazprom till the end of this year.

The parties preliminary arranged the prolongation of the current contract with the Russian gas holding for one year more, Vladimir Filat said. It should be reminded that the term of old contracts on gas supply and transit expired on December, 31, 2011. Gazprom and Moldovagaz did not sign the new ones due to some unsolved problems, but several times prolonged the old contracts, the last time it was prolonged till the end of 2012.

Earlier Minister of Economy of Moldova Valeriu Lazar said that during the talks between Moscow and Chisinau the parties did not agree to sign the new long-term gas supply and gas transit contract and arranged to sign the one-year one between Gazprom and Moldovagaz till the end of 2012.

The parties are going to continue the dialogue for solving problems in the energy sector, signing the Intergovernmental Energy Cooperation Agreement and the log-term gas contract.