H.E. Mrs. Larisa Miculet:

I thank the Deputy and I reiterate our gratitude for the visit to Moldova at the end of March or beginning of April, which was a time of need. It was an important time for Moldova. Regarding the Deputy's questions, not only gas but electricity is also a topic of our resilience. We faced different difficulties, especially, as the Deputy mentioned, Transnistria. There were tough, in-depth meetings which were not easy and in which the appropriate representatives of Transnistria and Moldovan authorities discussed these issues and found some formulas for solutions. We hope they will last but we are working on further improvement of tools of supply of electricity to Moldova.

We also want to start to implement green policies and solutions for sourcing energy in Moldova, and we have started doing so. At the same time, we are connected to European - Romanian - lines for electricity. The only difficulty is that we are connected through Ukraine and when there were attacks on those lines in Ukraine, the entire country of Moldova was also left for five hours without electricity. Our authorities, ministries and experts are working with the European Union on different formulas so as not to be dependent on sources that are vulnerable. We want to ensure our system will be settled in this way. As I said, we are working with the EU on being connected to different energy lines in Europe.