Yatsenyuk hopes for temporary settling the gas dispute with Russia
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk hopes for one of the variants of the provisional settlement of the gas dispute with Russia.
" 1st option - country appealed to the Stockholm arbitration court with the principal claim And more. And According to additional statement of claim, the Stockholm arbitration Tribunal may make an Interim solution in between " Naftogaz " And " Gazprom ". The second option is the signing of the interim agreement until the final decision of the arbitration court due to the common position of the EU And Ukraine ", - said Yatsenyuk during a joint briefing with the Prime Ministers of Romania And Moldova.
last week the EU has made the initiative a temporary management plan gas relations between Ukraine And the Russian capital. Designed for the period until the end of March " winter plan " provides for the transfer of Kiev this year 3, $ 1 billion in debt for gas from Russia And the supply Gazprom Ukraine 5 billion cubic meters of gas prepayment price 385 dollars per thousand cubic meters. Workaround is to remove the risks to the flow of gas transit from Russia to the EU through Ukraine.
Kiev has several claims to this " winter plan " - for example, it offers its own repayment schedule 3, 1 billion of debt And do not agree on Made Russia a mechanism for providing discounts to the price of $ 100 per thousand cubic meters due to customs duties.