EBRD pushes on with Azerbaijan gas loan after transparency rift

EBRD pushes on with Azerbaijan gas loan after transparency rift
# 04 May 2017 12:00 (UTC +04:00)

The development bank is “progressing” its financing to the $40 billion pipeline project with a final board decision expected by the end of the year, Suma Chakrabarti, the EBRD’s president, said in an interview in London.

“What’s happened on the EITI is very, very unfortunate,” Chakrabarti said. He was critical of the watchdog’s decision, saying that “quite a lot of people” were “worried about some of the criteria that are now being used in EITI.”


On March 8-9, 2017 EITI International Board held its 36th meeting in Bogota, Columbia. Azerbaijan was represented by delegation led by SOFAZ Executive Director Shahmar Movsumov.

Several issues were discussed at the meeting and it was decided to suspend membership of four countries – Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Solomon Islands and Azerbaijan to EITI.

Shahmar Movsumov stated that the decision was unjust.

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