Russia and Ukraine through the mediation of the European Commission have the opportunity this week to reach agreement on an interim winter plan for Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine, says the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for energy, g?nther Oettinger. " Hopefully next week we will agree on a winter package, " he said, Ettinger RIA " Novosti ". The next tripartite meeting at the Ministerial level between Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission will take place on 21 October. On the first day of the week Russian energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Ukraine did not want to repay a part of the gas debt to gas supplies from Russia. The Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan confirmed the refusal to pay gas debt Before new supplies of fuel. However, he continues to insist that the payments, which says Russia is not their debt payments, and prepayment for fresh supplies. Before that, Novak said that the Russian Federation has proposed a more flexible repayment schedule of Ukraine's gas debt, reducing the size of the first tranche 2 billion to 1, 451 billion.
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