The Ministry of energy: meeting the RF-EC-Ukraine gas 20 September will not be held
A trilateral meeting of the RF-EC-Ukraine gas September 20 will not be Discussed another date, said Last news in the European Commission and the Ministry of energy.
" The Russian Ministry informed us that on 20 September unacceptable date for the Minister (Alexander - editor) Novak. Minister Novak will give us an alternative date, " said Fins news Ombudsman of the press service of European Commission.
" We told the European Commission that the proposed date does not suit us. Discuss another date, " he said Last news official authorized by the Ministry of energy. She explained that the reason for this is the busy schedule of the Minister on this day.
The head of the Ministry of energy of Russia Alexander Novak agreed on 29 August with the European Commissioner g?nther Oettinger pumping gas from Russia to Europe through Ukraine. Ettinger negotiations tried to persuade Ukraine to provide reliability of transit and to begin to repay the debt. Total debt of Naftogaz to Gazprom is 5, 3 billion dollars, not paid eleven, 5 billion cubic meters of gas.
According to Novak, Russia is ready to move on to the discussion of the graphs of the restructuring of the remaining debt for repayment of Kiev debt for November-December 2013, and not entirely for April, may and June 2014 - a total of about 2 billion dollars.
Moscow and Kiev until now not have the opportunity to agree on the price of Russian gas for Ukraine. The Russian Federation proposes to establish a temporary price 385 dollars per thousand cubic meters for the period of consideration of the mutual claims of " Gazprom " and " Naftogaz ". With his own hand, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has made the initiative two options rates: summer $ 300 per thousand cubic meters in the winter - $ 380