Ce nu a spus videanul la conferinţa de presă, la întoarcerea din Rusia (articol din Georgian Daily):
Sublinierile cu roşu îmi aparţin.
Gazprom Seduces Romania With South Stream |
June 19, 2010 |
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Vladimir Socor On June 16 in Moscow, Gazprom CEO, Aleksei Miller, and Romanian Economy Minister, Adriean Videanu, agreed on steps to bring Romania, instead of Bulgaria, into the South Stream project; and bring Gazprom into Romania’s energy sector.
Miller and Videanu agreed on the following steps (Interfax, June 16; Ziarul Financiar, June 17; Kommersant, June 17, 18):
Re-directing South Stream through
Romania, instead of Bulgaria, would invalidate all the planning for
South Stream since the project’s inception. The pipeline was supposed
to run on the seabed of the Black Sea from Russia to Bulgaria; there to
bifurcate, northwestward into Central Europe (bypassing Romania) and
southwestward to Italy. The new version, just proposed, would run on
the seabed from Russia to Romania, bypassing Bulgaria altogether. It
would supposedly continue from Romania into Central Europe, and from
there via Slovenia to Italy.
This stunning revision would also
bypass the Russia-friendly countries of Serbia and Greece; unless
Moscow agrees to lay a pipeline from Romania to Serbia and Croatia in
order to reach Greece and Italy, after discarding the Bulgarian route.
All these hypothetical possibilities remain unresolved. If so, there
can be no question of Gazprom completing the feasibility studies for
all the country sections of South Stream, and for the project in its
entirety, by early 2011 as promised, let alone for a start on
construction work.
Romania’s economy ministry has
spearheaded an uneasy political decision in the Romanian government to
explore an energy partnership with Russia. Minister Videanu has acted
as the standard bearer of this policy since 2009, but it was unclear to
what extent he enjoyed the backing of the Romanian president and
government, themselves immersed in political infighting and
electioneering. President, Traian Basescu, consistently a South
Stream-skeptic until now, has not yet commented on Videanu’s June 16
agreements with Gazprom.
Gazprom had turned to Romania in the
fall of 2009, after Bulgaria had suspended its participation in South
Stream and other Russian energy projects, pending a review of their
terms. Gazprom sought from that point onward to pressure or punish
Bulgaria by preparing to re-direct South Stream through Romania. Amid
general skepticism in Bucharest, a few nevertheless rose to this
deceptive bait. Given the South Stream project’s lack of prospects,
however, Gazprom’s leverage on Sofia through Bucharest seems equally
unrealistic as Gazprom rewarding Romania for the policy shift.
The Bulgarian government confirmed
those projects’ indefinite suspension in that country, in tones of
finality, on June 11-13 (EDM, June 14). Videanu’s Moscow trip had
already been scheduled by that time as a follow-up to his February
talks with Gazprom Vice-Chairman, Aleksandr Medvedev, in Bucharest.
According to the Romanian Foreign
Minister, Teodor Baconschi, the EU-backed Nabucco project remains
Romania’s number one priority (Romania Libera, June 16). Other
officials, however, hope to turn Romania into a European “hub” of
energy transit projects: Nabucco, South Stream, AGRI, and more. “Thanks
to the efforts of the Ministry of Economy, all [these] projects would
run through Romania,” according to the minister himself (Agerpres, June
15). Such goals seem to take the South Stream bluff at face value and
also to overlook the incompatibility (at this stage) between AGRI and
Nabucco.
Bucharest’s move seems to “reset” its
previous policy, which had sought to minimize dependence on Russian
energy supplies or penetration of Romania’s energy sector by Russian
monopolies. In passing, it also turns Bucharest into a Gazprom cudgel
against Sofia. Moreover, it places Bucharest, alongside Ukrainian
President, Viktor Yanukovych’s, government in a new class of believers
in South Stream: Bucharest from misplaced hope, Kyiv from equally
misplaced fear, given South Stream’s lack of gas resources and
financing –and, now, the looming havoc in its planning.
Gazprom had offered to deliver a total
of 63 billion cubic meters of gas through South Stream, without
identifying gas production to meet any such commitments. It had
estimated South Stream’s overall cost at nearly $30 billion, without
identifying any source of funding. The company is now radically
changing the project’s geography, if Gazprom’s proposals to Romania can
be taken seriously at all.
Source: http://www.jamestown.org/programs/edm/ |
10 comentarii :
Eu ma crucesc si sunt din ce in ce mai socata.
Am aruncat o privire pe un articol adus de tine tot azi pe NR dar ceva mai devreme"
GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY
" Foreign policy specialists from Berlin’s establishment are discussing possible advantages of dictatorial forms of government. According to the current issue of a leading German foreign policy review, some observers see the West as being currently in a “state of democratic fatigue with an erosion of democratic institutions.” Simultaneously there are “diverse discussions of dictatorial powers and measures” even if usually in terms of a temporary dictatorship."
Bomba aia atomică era planificată pentru Berlin. Poate că nu-i timpul pierdut.
Cu siguranta au gresit destinatia !
Si vorba ta, istoric vorbind nici nu este timpul pierdut ....
:mrgreen:
nu fitzi socatzi, nu tot ce scriu si ziarele noastre, este
adevärat.
se scriu la comandä, tendentzios si de multe ori f. departe de adevär.
desigur videanu , nu putea spune ceva, care nu se stie cum iese.
citesc de multe ori grozävii, de care nici nu mai auzi.
Videanu "ştie ce iese", din moment ce au transpirat detaliile afacerii.
Sper să nu iasă, n-or fi nebuni bulgarii că au zis "niet".
Inteleg ca articolul a aparut inr-o publicatie georgiana..
Da, iar Vladimir Socor a lucrat la Europa Liberă, secţia română, specializat pe spaţiul URSS şi basarabia (părinţii lui sunt din Basarabia, parcă).
El pune link la siteul The Jamestown Foundation, care are secţiunea Eurasia Daily Monitor:
http://www.jamestown.org/aboutus/
Pe ce spune presa de la noi m-am obisnuit sa nu ma bazez.
Dar, faptul ca deja georgienii comenteaza m-a pus cel mai mult pe ganduri. Asta chiar ma ingrijoreaza.
Mie imi place Shaakashvili.
L-am auzit vorbind imediat dupa tragedia de la Smolensk
Mă laşi, cu "dictatorul" ăla de Saakashvili ?! ;-)
:)))))) !
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