Peskov: there is no politics in the talks between Russia and Moldova on gas

The Russian-Moldovan gas negotiations are exclusively commercial in nature, they do not have “any political moments,” Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president, told reporters. So he commented on an article by the British newspaper The Financial Times that Gazprom allegedly offered Moldova to amend the free trade agreement with the EU and postpone the energy market reforms agreed with Brussels in exchange for gas supplies from Russia at a lower price.

“There are no political moments and there cannot be, these are exclusively commercial negotiations. There is a need, there is a commercial offer, there is a proposed discount, there is also a problem of accumulated debt, ”said Mr. Peskov.

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