Putin and Barroso stressed the importance of gas supplies from Russia to the European Union
The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin and the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso stressed the importance of continued dialogue to maintain uninterrupted supply of gas from Russia to the EU through Ukraine, informs the press service of the Kremlin on the first day of the week.
" The importance of continued dialogue to maintain uninterrupted supply of gas from Russia to the European Union through the territory of Ukraine ", - said in the report.
As stated on its part, the press service of the European Commission, during a telephone conversation, Putin and Barroso, it was decided that the tripartite meeting at the Ministerial level on energy issues should be held. The EC informs that the Russian Federation will propose a date for the next " trentalance " in the near future.
As stated in the first day of the week Last news in the European Commission and the Ministry of energy of the Russian Federation, a trilateral meeting of the RF-EC-Ukraine gas September 20 will not be discussed another date. 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