06 May 2004 07:02
NIK: Contract For Gas Supplies Puts Poland`s Security at Risk
Poland's energy security is at risk due to unfavourable gas contracts with Russian suppliers, the Supreme Board
of Inspection (NIK) has concluded in a report, according to the Rzeczpospolita daily. As a consequence of an agreement
signed in February last year, by the then Deputy PM Marek Pol, Poland lost an opportunity to construct a second branch
of the Jamal pipeline, while the amount of gas contracted was so huge it made any attempt at diversification
economically unfeasible. NIK criticised all aspects of the negotiations held by Pol, who wasn't even authorised by
the government to conduct them. "The Act on International Agreements was breached at every level of the
negotiations," the NIK inspectors concluded in their report. However, Marek Pol rejects these accusations and says
that NIK is biased and unreliable. Consequently, the former deputy PM rejected the report and submitted his objections.
All but one were rejected by NIK.
[Polish News Bulletin] |
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