Vice-President of the European Commission g?nter Oettinger, responsible for energy, said quite positively assesses the chances of signing on Thursday, documents on winter gas plan as a result of negotiations in a trilateral format.
" I'm pretty optimistic, " said Ettinger correspondents in response to the corresponding question on arrival at the next round of tripartite talks on the gas in the house of the European Commission, RIA " Novosti ". Remember, the next round of negotiations in the tripartite format began on Wednesday. On Thursday, Russian energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Ukraine has promised Russia to find the means to pay for delivery in winter 4 billion cubic meters of gas, held a dialogue with the EC and international financial institutions. On Thursday, energy Minister Alexander Novak said that the Russian Federation and Ukraine agreed on the basic rules for the resumption of gas supplies to Ukraine in the winter. He said that the European Commission fully supported the position of the capital of Russia in the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute. First Deputy Minister of energy of Ukraine Vadim Alida said that the Ukrainian government has approved a tripartite Protocol on gas supplies from Russia in the winter. Later that same day, the head of the Board of Naftogaz Andrey Kobelev said that in the result of negotiations on gas in a trilateral format on Thursday a high probability to sign a " temporary winter package ". 21 October in Brussels and could not sign a temporary gas contract between Russia and Ukraine. While the EC submitted a proposal to the European Company bought gas for Ukraine and resold it. However, the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller said that Moscow does not consider the emergence of a European intermediary company that would buy gas on the border of Russia and Ukraine. As reported by Russian energy Minister Alexander Novak, at the meeting, Russia is configured to achieve a final agreement and signing documents with Ukraine.

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