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Government Unveils Enguri HPP Deal for MPs
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 5 Feb.'09 / 18:17

The government has showed a memorandum, signed with Inter RAO on Enguri hydro power plant, to the group of lawmakers from the parliamentary minority.

The document, which is not a legally binding agreement, remains confidential for the wider public, as the Energy Ministry says it contains “commercial secrets.”

“There is only one article [of the memorandum] which is a commercial secret and it concerns issues related with export of electricity,” MP Paata Davitaia, who was among lawmakers seen the document, told Civil.Ge on February 5. “The Minister [of Energy Alexandre Khetaguri] has spoken about other provision publicly and there is nothing new in this regard.”

“As we have promised we have showed them [the parliamentary minority] the document and they have seen that there is nothing problematic for our country in the memorandum,” Nika Gilauri, PM-designate told journalists on February 5.

The Georgian Energy Ministry signed a memorandum on joint management of the Enguri hydro power plant on the Abkhaz administrative border with Russia’s state-controlled electricity trader, Inter RAO, in late December.

The Georgian Energy Ministry said in January that one of the aspects of the agreement was export of electricity by Inter RAO into Turkey via Enguri HPP.

The agreement between Georgia and Inter RAO, according to the government, will go into force only after a relevant legally binding contract is signed between the parties. MP Paata Davitaia said that he would insist on setting up of a special parliamentary group to closely monitor drafting of the contract before it is signed.

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