The Parliament of Ukraine at the meeting on the last working day of the week did not want again to consider the draft law on the operator of the gas transportation system (GTS) with participation of investors from the US and the EU, which yesterday was not supported by the Verkhovna Rada.

at the evening meeting on Thursday, the people's deputies failed valeisienes on government initiatives to increase the payment of the army, and the law that would allow the government to make the operator of the Ukrainian GTS, in which up to 49% could get investors from the US and the EU.

then Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that resigns, which must approve the Verkhovna Rada.

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko yesterday sent a letter to the Parliament speaker with a request to re-examine failed bills. The inclusion in the agenda of the law on the reform of the GTS supported only 124 parliamentarian with the necessary minimum of 226 votes. The MPs also want to include in the agenda of making changes in the Tax rule of Ukraine, which would allow to find the means to pay for the Ukrainian army.

first of Yatseniuk has stated many times that Kyiv is ready to discuss together the operation and modernization of the Ukrainian GTS with investors from the US and the EU. According to him, a number of European and American organizations have already sent the appropriate proposals.

Ukrainian Parliament adopted the draft law on the operator of the gas transportation system in the first reading in early July. Consideration was very hard, in the people's representatives had a lot of comments to the document. For example, a number of parliamentarians insisted that, in preparing for the second reading the document was supplemented with a provision about approval of the shareholders of the operator GTS specifically by the Verkhovna Rada.

the draft law provides that the operator will be entitled to management and/or concession or lease " main gas pipelines and underground storages.

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