European Commission: Ukraine should remain a reliable transit partner

The European Commission calculates that Ukraine remains a reliable transit partner, said Tuesday the European Commissioner for energy g?nther Oettinger.
" We are again this morning in a telephone conversation with our Ukrainian partners raised the issue of the bill. We are confident that Ukraine will remain a reliable transit partner ", - reported in circulation Ettinger, RIA " Novosti ". Pumping gas from Russia to the EU via Ukraine is not broken, it is noted in the communiqu? Ettinger comment the Ukrainian draft law on the possibility of stopping the transit of energy resources from Russia. The Commission believes that the idea of Naftogaz of the acquisition of European gas companies from Russia on the border between Russia and Ukraine, and not on the border of Ukraine with the EU, requires the revision of contracts reported in circulation Ettinger. According to him, It does not have the ability to be made in the short term." This is a question that should be discussed at a tripartite meeting between the European Commission, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. We are working on organizing such a meeting in the early fall, " said Vice-President of the European Commission. First Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Ukraine as one of the types of punishments is considering a ban on the Transit of energy resources from Russia. Later, the official German government Commissioner Steffen Seibert said in Berlin hopes that the Ukrainian government will abandon plans to introduce a ban on the Transit of energy resources from Russia. Remember, on June 27, the Head of Gazprom Alexei Miller said about the readiness of the organization to increase the pumping of gas into underground gas storage Europe, noting that It's not completely remove the risk of transit through Ukraine during the coming winter. As long as the Transit is carried out in contractual settings, however, Gazprom and the European Commission consider issues in the winter, when Ukraine will spend accumulated in its own storage resources. The head of Naftogaz Andrey Kobelev said that Ukraine daily downloads in the vault under the ground (UGS) 22-25 million cubic meters of gas. According to him, the injection of gas goes through the reverse supply and domestic production. Ukraine has repeatedly stated that guarantees trouble-free pumping of gas from Russia to Europe, and because of this, even called on the EU to block the " South stream ".

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