The head of the EC hopes on the consensus of the Russian Federation, the EU and Ukraine on gas
The head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso expressed the hope that the tripartite group Russia-Ukraine-EU on energy issues will meet in the coming days and reaches a consensus on gas issues.
" We hope that the tripartite group on energy will be held in the coming days and will be agreed between the parties in order that the gas could be transported, and at the same time in Ukraine there was no shortage of gas in the winter, " said Barroso during a joint briefing with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
The official authorized by the Vice chair of the EC for energy g?nther Oettinger Marlene Holzner said Thursday that the European Commission made a proposal to hold a trilateral meeting in the format of Russia-Ukraine-EU gas problems 20 September in Berlin.
The head of the Ministry of energy of Russia Alexander Novak agreed on 29 August with 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.