Tbilisi wants to change the former agreements with Gazprom and get money for the transit of the Russian gas to Armenia via its territory instead of the ten percent received for the entire amount of gas. Georgian Deputy PM and Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze stated the aforementioned today, Vzglyad reports.

“These negotiations are very important for Georgia,” Kaladze said.

The Deputy PM called “insanity” all the suspicions of the opposition over the fact that Georgia is conceding Gazprom in the negotiations, which it regularly conducts on the territory of third countries.

According to Kakha Kakhadze, Georgia and Gazprom renew transit agreements between Georgia and Gazprom every year, but this time Tbilisi “wants to get money instead of the 10 percent from the transit volume.”

In his words, no final agreement has yet been reached but he promised to inform the public once Georgia and Gazprom sign a new agreement for a year.

So far 10 percent of the transported gas remained in Georgia as a payment for transit.  

Georgia itself imports gas from Azerbaijan although Tbilisi doesn’t exclude that for commercial needs the country will in the future need both Russian and Iranian gas.