CHISINAU, October 22. /TASS/. Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilitsa is calling a commission on emergency situations to introduce a state of emergency due to gas shortages.

"Immediately after this briefing, the Emergency Situations Commission will be appointed to make several decisions. <...> We will ask the parliament and the government to declare a state of emergency. The existing leverage are not enough to overcome the [crisis] in the energy sector," the prime minister said at a briefing on Friday.