What’s going on? Ambassador Debono tells SOCAR/Baku that Gasol isn’t insolvent
I’ve just found the strangest report in the Azerbaijan press. Malta’s newly minted ambassador to Baku, John Debono (supplier of billboards to the Labour Party) has felt the need to tell those people that no, Gasol is not insolvent. That’s just the press in Malta being “pessimistic”. Surely there are people in Baku who can read a set of published accounts.
But what this indicates, of course, is quite a bit of trouble in paradise. That was two and a half weeks ago. If SOCAR is fretting because of reports about Gasol in the Maltese press, and if the Maltese government has felt constrained to use its ambassador to reassure SOCAR about Gasol’s solvency, then what this says is that relationships within the Electrogas consortium have broken down.
And that the Electrogas consortium’s relationship with the Maltese government has broken down, too.
And right here, in this story in the Azerbaijan press dated 25 November, we have the reason why our puppet prime minister has gone post-haste to Baku, accompanied only by his head of secretariat Keith Schembri, his press spokesman Kurt Farrugia, and the energy minister.
Let’s join some more dots. Only a week ago, Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Malta made a series of formal visits in Malta, including one to the Speaker of the House.
As a side note, I see that John ‘Billboard Supplier’ Debono is not only ambassador to Ukraine and Azerbaijan, but also to Kazakhstan and Russia – a truly fine collection of oppressive regimes.
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http://en.apa.az/xeber_ambassador_____reports_on_failure_of_socar_219469.html
This is bizarre. No wonder when the puppet came into power someone who knew him for a lifetime told me, ‘This is the beginning of the end for the tranquillity and peace of mind we have enjoyed these last twenty-five years.’
What an excellent assessment of the situation.
Joseph Muscat’s government is stumbling from one crisis to the next.
Muscat is surrounded by a bunch of incompetent, lazy and greedy Ministers, and he’s not much better.
The credibility of the government is broken beyond repair and only an early general election can fix it.
The 22nd month is drawing close.
What about Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan? A few more left to string them all together. China is right next door. Point is what does tiny malta have anything to do with this oligarchies?
Joseph Muscat thinks he can outwit anybody that is why ?
The point is that someone is making lots of money out of this and several people in key decision-making positions stand to gain personally.
What are the odds that John Debono DOESN’T work for Shiv Nair?
Does it mean that Socar/Baku do not believe Ambassador Debono when he says that Gasol isn’t insolvent?
It somehow means that Socar are not able to turn on their fellow member of the Electrogas consortium – Gasol plc – and ask them if the media reports are true or false.
Socar should then relay the message to its ultimate owner, that is Ilham Aliyev, who will issue a public decree to prohibit the expression of any doubts about Gasol plc’s financial position.
Situation solved. In Azerbaijan, of course.
Wrong, ciccio.
It means that SOCAR know for sure that Gasol plc is in trouble and they must have aired their concern with the Maltese government.
The ambassador’s reply is the typical statement of an unconvinced salesman.
Fenomenali.
They have started believing their own negativity bunkum. Are ambassadors made to read the The Secret while on the way to their ambassadorial destination?
Is Joseph Muscat the second coming of Christ? Can he turn negative accounts into positive ones?
Pity he wasn’t President of the World (he deserves no less) when the 2008 recession struck. He would have solved that Lehmann mess in a jiffy simply by denying that the company had gone broke.
“The project management of the selection process was unprecedented and never seen under previous PN administrations. Electro Gas is truly a world-class bidder, combining foreign expertise and local investment,” Mizzi said.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/30638/electro-gas-malta-entrusted-with-gas-fueled-power-station-20131013#.VI9pDHtG9mM
I’d like to see that incompetent imbecile repeat that statement.
That incompetent imbecile is going to put us in the deep shit. I hope that the Opposition will crucify him for what he is along with Muscat obviously.
25th November 2014 – isn’t that when Konrad Mizzi’s new-deadline-to-which-you-can-hold-me was fast approaching and Muscat dived in with his pseudo-reassurance that there’d be a new announcement the following week?
It was also when the Opposition said it would move a no-confidence vote against Mallia, turning up the heat on Muscat, which means he was running out of distractions.
Why is Malta’s ambassador to Azerbaijan commenting about the demise or otherwise of a British company?
Even if this company is involved in business with an Azeri company and Malta is a possible beneficiary of this venture, it is not his place to comment.
Moreover, he is not accredited to Russia: Carmel Brincat is. He is another political appointee who replaced a career diplomat who had not reached the end of his term.
Prosit Def. Malta Institute of Accountant’s 2015 CPE program ought to include a seminar on: “How to disregard auditors’ reports when there’s an ambassador at hand.”
Wasn’t our resident ambassador in Moscow the Qormi doctor, Carmelo Brincat?