Minister Says Sabotage Reason of Current Energy Crisis

(Tbilisi, September 2, 2003, Civil Georgia) – Energy Minister Mamuka Nikolaishvili said “increased number of sabotages is the reason of the current energy crisis in the country and in Tbilisi.”

“On September 1 the power plant number 9 [owned by the Russian Unified Energy Systems] was shut down because of sabotage,” Nikolaishvili said in the interview to the Rustavi 2 TV channel on September 2.

Last month the entire country was blacked out because of sabotage on a high voltage power line in western Georgia.

Nikolaishvili, who was appointed on the post of the!
minister in August, says “the Energy Ministry claims responsibility for the current situation in the energy system of the country. 

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