The works to build the Iasi-Ungheni gas pipeline will be completed by the end of this year, said Romanian Minister of Economy Varujan Vosganian, who is the co-chairman of the Moldovan-Romanian intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation. “Our responsibility is to implement this project. At least until now, we didn’t have reasons to doubt that the program we undertook will not be fulfilled and that the works will not be executed by this yearend,” the official said during a visit to Chisinau, IPN reports.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar, who is the commission’s co-chairman on behalf of Moldova, said that the Moldovan Government made a decision by which it exempted the deliveries of pipes for this project from VAT. The pipes will be brought to the building site and laid.

“Under the plan, the linear works, which is the installation of pipes, will be finished by the end of December and all the forces on the building site were mobilized for achieving this goal. But the gas pipeline is a specific construction. All the installations work under pressure and the competent authorities of Romania and Moldova will have to verify and certify the works,” said Valeriu Lazar, adding that the completion of the linear works will be followed by a period of tests. The project will be completed with all the required certifications next April.