Boyko Borissov: Our relations with Russia do not depend on a company's demands

“We don't have to mix Bulgarian-Russian relations with a company's demands for compensation for the Belene NPP,” Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov said on Thursday. “The friendship with Russia dates back centuries and this will continue in the future. But this is not the case with some company, which participated in all of those processes together with its agents in Bulgaria, mainly in the communist-socialist party. Let MPs say how those bills were run up and reveal them. When we were in the Sofia underground, they told me that the money invested in the Belene NPP so far was much more than the funds spent for the underground in Sofia,” Borissov added.

“I did not expect that at all. Therefore, I think that President Putin has not been informed either, but if he has been informed, I expect that he takes decision, because we are strictly fulfilling our commitments on the South Stream. We have pledged that we will pay the rest for the 7th power unit and we will receive it, but as to the 8th power unit, we have to file documents specifying when we will build it. There are contracts. It is clear that these contracts are not normal contracts – they state neither the prices, nor the terms, nothing,” the Prime Minister said. He added that Bulgarian-Russian relations didn't have to be involved. “Here is a company, which dared to do that. If they want to go to court, we will sue them. But I am convinced that President Putin, if he learns that, will not be pleased, because he will come on November 9 to sign the South Stream deal and we will ask him these questions directly. There is no way that they will persuade me to the opposite, because when a power unit of EUR 200 mln is bought for EUR 78 mln and then operates in a perfect way and produces electricity, it should not be charged EUR 1 bn afterwards... Except for using that as tactics, of course. I don't know. We signed all provisions of the South Stream contract, so that we will have nothing to discuss on November 9, we will only need to sign the contract itself. Therefore, this is not an issue that could put pressure on us,” Borissov said.

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