Naftogaz Group refused to provide a copy of the decision of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce dated on December 22, 2017 as part of an information request from the media, in order not to give to Russian Gazprom a reason not to comply with it.<\/p>\n
The specified reasoning is contained in the response of “Naftogaz of Ukraine” to the information request of “Ukrainian News”, the agency said.<\/p>\n
So, the response says that the text of the decision of the Stockholm court contains detailed information about the gas purchase and sale contract with Gazprom and additional agreements. At the same time, the contract itself contains a rule on its confidentiality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the world practice of international commercial arbitration, there have been cases where the party of the arbitration proceedings against which the decision was made tried to appeal or complicate the execution of the arbitrator’s decision on the grounds that the other party supposedly maliciously disclosed information in connection with the arbitration proceedings, that caused damage to the party against which the decision was made. Therefore, it is impossible to exclude the possibility of usage of a similar strategy in the future by Gazprom,\u201d the response says.<\/p>\n
At the same time, it is specified that in order to avoid complications with the implementation of the decision, the Ukrainian side refrains from sharing any documents that are contained in the materials of the relevant arbitration proceedings.
\nIn addition, the agency sent relevant requests to the presidential administration, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the relevant ministry, but state authorities said they did not have copies of the court decision.<\/p>\n