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To the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin
Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation
M.M. Kasyanov
On Urgent Measures to Overcome the Energy Crisis
in Maritime Territory
Today it is obvious to everybody that the situation
in Maritime
Territory is
on the verge of a humanitarian disaster. Virtually
all the main life
support
systems of the Territory are in a critical condition.
The fuel crisis has affected most districts and settlements.
This is
only
part of the systematic crisis that has embraced our
energy system,
housing
and communal services and the budget sphere of the
territory. The
situation
has recurred every year, but has deteriorated each
time.
All the aforementioned critical conditions are attributable
to a crisis
of
management. The Administration of the Territory is
unable to manage this
strategically important region of Russia. However,
the federal
authorities
cannot absolve themselves of responsibility for the
millions of Russian
citizens who have become hostages to the failure
of the administration
of
Maritime Territory.
To avert the energy disaster, we need to find today
2.5-3 billion
roubles,
and expenditure should be put under strict control
of federal
structures.
We propose that President Putin establish a State
Commission responsible
for
the situation in Maritime Territory. Such a Commission
should include
the
plenipotentiary representative of the President in
the Far East Federal
District, a representative of the administration of
Maritime Territory,
as
well as representatives of the Control Department
of the Administration
of
the President, Control and Audit Department of the
Finance Ministry and
the
Federal Treasury. The Commission should dispose of
all the necessary
proxies
on control over the movement of all the funds allotted
from the budgets
at
all levels to maintain the life support systems of
Maritime
Territory.
We propose that the Government of the Russian consider
the following
variants for resolving the energy crisis in Maritime
Territory:
Variant 1. Grant a short-term loan to the administration
of the Territory controlled by the federal authorities,
provided that the money is offset
against signed treaties for the delivery of fuel
and energy resources
and
ensure allocation of these funds directly to fuel
suppliers, thereby
bypassing the accounts of the administration of the
Territory.
Variant 2. Grant the guarantees of the RF government
on the attraction of short-term loans from commercial
banks that will be allotted to the purchase of fuel
for Maritime Territory with an automatic repayment
of these loans from the transfers envisaged for Maritime
Territory in the federal budget for 2001.
Variant 3. The Finance Ministry should resolve, together
with the Defence Ministry, the issue of granting the
administration of the Territory a necessary volume
of fuel as a commodity credit under the guarantees
of the Finance Ministry and return of the corresponding
means from transfers envisaged for Maritime Territory
in the federal budget for 2001.
Variant 4. The funds for the purchase of fuel should
immediately be
allotted
from the reserve funds of the government and the President
of the RF, or
for
this goal the reserve fuel funds of the Defence Ministry
and the
Ministry
of Extraordinary Situations should be used.
To avert any recurrence of the energy crisis in Maritime
Territory in
other regions situated in an area with high energy
crisis risks
(Kamchatka,
Magadan, Sakhalin, Omsk, Ivanovo, Chelyabinsk and
other regions) we
propose
the development of a special order to finance the
purchase of fuel for
such
regions. The order should include the following:
1) Prior signing of contracts with fuel suppliers
by the administration
of
the federation subject under the control of the federal
structures.
2) Financing of fuel deliveries exclusively through
the Federal
Treasury.
3) Sanctions for any officials violating the order
of priority financing
for
the measures within the framework of the heating season.
The Yabloko faction is ready to send its specialists
to assist with
implementation of any of the proposed variants for
overcoming the
crisis.
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