The EU and Ukraine agreed on the mutual exchange of letters on figurantes to pay for gas from Russia, but Russia did not see them, said the head of the Ministry of energy of Russia Alexander Novak. " The European Commission has not yet before the end of the announced volume of financial help Ukraine to pay for gas, but there is still time, risks Gazprom does not have, " he said, Novak RIA " Novosti "." The question is that the Ukrainian side had asked for assurances that the value will be saved with benefits for a period of five months. We made an offer to sign an intergovernmental agreement Russia-Ukraine, under which We would guarantee this price. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian side did not want from such a mechanism and made the proposal of the European Commission to take on their own shoulders the appropriate risks. For this reason, this document assumes from the outset, because this is the Protocol between the European Commission and Ukraine, " said Novak in an interview with " Russia-24 "." in the end, today the parties have agreed, because it would be an exchange of letters, which will be disclosed to appropriate obligations ", - said the head of the Ministry of energy. According to the results of the trilateral talks in Brussels, Russia, the EU and Ukraine signed the final agreement on gas supply and transit until March 2015. A legally recorded consensus, the cost of gas to Ukraine until March 2015 will amount to 378 USD per cubic meter with a planned return To the price under the contract since April. Russian energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Ukraine has agreed its funds for the prepayment of 4 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia during November-December.
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