Tymoshenko against the abolition of the gas contract of 2009 with Russia
The leader of the Ukrainian parliamentary party "Batkivshchyna" Yulia Tymoshenko believes that it is not necessary to cancel the gas agreement with Russia, which was signed by her government in 2009.
"When the agreement was signed in 2009, the cost of gas was 232 dollars. In the fourth quarter (of this year - ed.) the cost will be $ 150. Lower than today, on the reverse gives the European Union. This contract cannot be cancelled ", - said Tymoshenko in the "Hour of questions to the government" in the Verkhovna Rada on the last working day of the week.
The country's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk reacted to the forecast Tymoshenko about the price of gas to $ 150 per thousand cubic meters." If the cost of gas in the fourth quarter will be $ 150, for a difference I will turn to you to compensate for in the state budget, " he said.
Between Gazprom and Naftogaz in 2009, when Tymoshenko Premiership - were signed ten-year contracts for the production and delivery of gas from Russia to Ukraine and its transit to the European Union via Ukraine. Kiev has been trying to revise gas contract with Russia, calling the price of gas too high, and contracts - bonded.
In autumn 2011, Tymoshenko was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for abuse of authority during signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009. In April 2014, after the February coup, the Supreme court of Ukraine closed the "gas case" regarding ex-Prime Minister in the absence of evidence of lawlessness.