LITHUANIAN PRIME MINISTER
ALGIRDAS BUTKEVIČIUS:
Cheaper gas if Gazprom is gentlemanly

The price of natural gas for Lithuania may go down if Russia’s gas company Gazprom seeks to maintain good economic relations with the Baltic country, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius.

Otherwise, the price of gas will not decline before the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, he adds.

“If Gazprom’s executive took, if you will, a gentleman-like approach towards the maintenance of good economic relations with the neighboring countries, the price of gas applied to Lithuania could be brought in line with the prices applying to Estonia and Latvia, even in the near future,” he told the public radio by phone from Brussels on Thursday.
If the parties failed to reach a compromise, the price of gas could only go down at the end of 2014 with the completion of the LNG terminal in Klaipėda, he said.

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