Opposition party wants Russian deal debated

Parliament's Industry Committee will meet on Monday, and is expected to consider the energy agreement with Russia, Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović says.

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Parliament's Industry Committee will meet on Monday, and is expected to consider the energy agreement with Russia, Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic says. She also confirmed that her fellow Socialists (SPS), Energy Minister Petar Skundric, will be invited to attend the meetings. Opposition party wants Russian deal debated The committee will meet on the request of the opposition Liberal-Democrats (LDP), which claim that the energy arrangement will only see Serbia's state-run oil monopoly NIS sold to the Russians, while the other two elements of the deal – the construction of the South Stream pipeline and a gas storage facility in Vojvodina – will be dropped. "Your silence, the silence of you who voted in favor of the ratification [of the agreement] is also indicative. If you are scared of what you have done that's good, fear shows conscience and responsibility," Zoran Ostojic, LDP, told MPs in parliament of Friday. The initiative was also supported by Nada Kolundzija of the Democratic Party (DS) – on behalf of the "For a European Serbia" five-party pre-election coalition, which is now a part of the ruling majority. The LDP has also demanded that the Serbian state gas enterprise Srbijagas head, Dusan Bajatovic, SPS, attend the meeting, to inform it about mediators in the purchase of natural gas. Russia's Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller was in Belgrade on Friday for top-level meetings over the strategic energy deal, signed in Moscow in January, and ratified in the Serbian parliament this fall. It was announced afterwards that the NIS sale contract and an agreement on basic conditions for the construction of the South Stream will be signed by the end of the year.

Opposition party wants Russian deal debated

The committee will meet on the request of the opposition Liberal-Democrats (LDP), which claim that the energy arrangement will only see Serbia's state-run oil monopoly NIS sold to the Russians, while the other two elements of the deal – the construction of the South Stream pipeline and a gas storage facility in Vojvodina – will be dropped.

"Your silence, the silence of you who voted in favor of the ratification [of the agreement] is also indicative. If you are scared of what you have done that's good, fear shows conscience and responsibility," Zoran Ostojić, LDP, told MPs in parliament of Friday.

The initiative was also supported by Nada Kolundžija of the Democratic Party (DS) – on behalf of the "For a European Serbia" five-party pre-election coalition, which is now a part of the ruling majority.

The LDP has also demanded that the Serbian state gas enterprise Srbijagas head, Dušan Bajatović, SPS, attend the meeting, to inform it about mediators in the purchase of natural gas.

Russia's Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller was in Belgrade on Friday for top-level meetings over the strategic energy deal, signed in Moscow in January, and ratified in the Serbian parliament this fall.

It was announced afterwards that the NIS sale contract and an agreement on basic conditions for the construction of the South Stream will be signed by the end of the year.

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