Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk tried to persuade the European Union to block the project " South stream ", assuring reliability of gas transit through Ukraine. The gas pipeline " South stream " is being built across the Black sea to southern and Central Europe to diversify routes of gas export from Russia." We urge the EU to block " South stream ". Ukraine ? reliable transit country, We fulfilled and will fulfill its obligations, " ? Mr. Yatseniuk said at a meeting of the Parliament on Tuesday. Before Russia started proceedings in the WTO on the Third energy package of the EU. This document does not allow the companies extracting gas, to be the owners located in the area of trunk pipelines, which creates serious obstacles for the project " South stream ". The head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin in may, said that the Russian Federation is committed to implement projects Nord stream and South stream, but if the European Union will create obstacles to the implementation of the latter, the Russian Federation see other pipeline routes approximately countries outside the EU.

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