The Minister of Environment and Energy, Costas Skrekas, convenes an extraordinary meeting of the crisis management team, today, Wednesday, March 30, as tomorrow, March 31, expires the ultimatum of the Russian Federation for the payment of contracts gas supply in rubles.
The purpose of the meeting, which will take place at 5 pm, is to evaluate alternative scenarios for the adequacy of the country’s gas supply in the event of a power outage from Russia.
The meeting will be attended by the President of RAE, Athanasios Dagoumas, the President of the Crisis Management Team and B Vice President of RAE, Dimitris Fourlaris, the CEO of DESFA, Maria Rita Galli, the CEO of DEFA Emporias, K. PPC CEO, George Stassis, the PPC Deputy CEO, Ioannis Kopanakis and a representative of IPTO management.
Last week the Russian president Vladimir Putin instructed Gazprom to accept payments for gas only in rubles from “unfriendly countries”, ie countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia.
Today, a day before the end of the Russian ultimatum, Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin warned the EU that if it wanted to import gas from Russia, it would have to pay in rubles.
He added that the same could apply to exports of oil, cereals, metals, fertilizers, coal and timber.
“If you want gas, find rubles,” Volodin said in a post today. “In addition, it would be right, where this benefits our country, to expand the list of products priced in rubles in order to include: fertilizers, cereals, oil, sunflower oil, coal, metals, timber, etc.” he added.
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