Media: Brussels is not ready to Express support for Kiev on the issue of gas contracts
Brussels is not ready to Express support for the initiative of Kyiv to oust the Russian Federation from the system of gas transit, says the Austrian print edition.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk have said before About the possibility of introducing against Russia 26 types of penalties, including termination of transit of energy resources. The relevant draft law was approved by the government.
Through Ukraine there is a transit pipelines in which Russia supplies gas and oil in the European Union.
according to the information Wirtschafts Blatt proposed Yatseniuk measure involves changing contracts, under which the European gas organization in the future would have acquired the gas at the Russian-Ukrainian border, after which it supplies to the European Union would take place under their control.
According to the EU Commissioner for energy g?nther Oettinger, now the transit of gas from Russia to the European Union is carried out without any issues. However, Western European energy companies are afraid of supply interruptions in the winter.
Ettinger in a telephone conversation with Kiev listened to the proposal for the revision of the contracts and said that he was confident that Ukraine as a reliable transit partner, However, clarified that the resolution of this issue have the time and the participation of three parties: the EU, Russia and Ukraine. It is planned that the dialogues on the transit gas flow will take place in early autumn.
Western analysts, emphasizes Wirtschafts Blatt, reacted to the proposed Kiev measures with surprise." It certainly would be a PR disaster for Ukraine to supply feed gas to the European Union under the risk - commented economist at standard Bank in London Timothy ash.- If interruptions, where blame Ukraine, will take place, it will quickly lose friends in Western capitals ".
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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