PM says government stands with Moldovan citizens, to continue investing in infrastructure needed

Chisinau, 6 January /MOLDPRES/ - The government stands with the citizens and will continue investing in the infrastructure needed, so that the settlements from the Security Zone, which are under the control of the constitutional authorities, become independent from Tiraspol’s decisions. Prime Minister Dorin Recean today made statements to this effect following a meeting of the Commission for Emergency Situations (CSE). The participants in the event approved a string of measures, in order to ensure the continuity and the reliability of the supply with electric energy and natural gas to the consumers from 14 settlements from the Security Zone, which are under the control of the constitutional authorities.   
„Dear citizens, we had the CSE meeting today, during which we approved a string of decisions due to help our citizens from the districts of Anenii Noi, Causeni and Dubasari. It is about 14 settlements which we must connect to the natural gas network and the network of supply with electric energy from the right bank of Dniester. We had to adopt decisions, in order to make the things which had not been made during 30 years and namely, these settlements, these citizens should not depend on Tiraspol’s decisions as regards the supply of  electric energy and natural gas,’’ Dorin Recean said.     
The PM informed also that the CSE had instructed that Premier Energy Distribution and Moldovagaz Company, as soon as possible, construct the networks of supply with electric energy and the networks of supply with natural gas for the concerned settlements.   
Besides, for the Varnita and Cocieri settlements, CSE instructed the delivery of generators, as well as fuel necessary for the supply of these settlements, as well as the public institutions, especially the schools, with thermal energy and electric energy.  
„We are with the citizens and we will continue to invest in the infrastructure necessary, so that these settlements become independent from Tiraspol’s decisions,’’ Dorin Recean also said.
The Russian giant Gazprom suspended the delivery of natural gas to Moldovagaz starting from 1 January 2025, -8:-00 (Moscow time). The entire quantity of gas supplied till 1 January was directed to the Tiraspoltransgaz enterprise. Given a potential humanitarian crisis in the Transnistrian region because of the non-observance by Russia of the contract on the supply of natural gas to the consumers from the left bank of Dniester, Moldova has been in an emergency state beginning with 16 December 2024.    
As a result of Gazprom’s decision, starting from 1 January 2025, the specialized enterprises from the Transnistrian region ceased the supply of natural gas, centralized heating and warm water to more settlements (boiler houses, private houses, multi-storied blocks of flats with autonomous heating) and the household consumers from the settlements checked by the constitutional authorities Varnita, Cocieri, Corjova, Cosnita, Dorotcaia, Molovata Noua, Parata, Pohrebea, Vasilievca, Copanca, Hagimus and Farladeni were also disconnected from supply.