The head of Lithuania: the EU can help Ukraine to pay for gas from Russia
Vladimir Dobrovolsky. The European Union will try to help Ukraine to pay for gas from Russia, said the head of Lithuania Dalia grybauskait? on Thursday.
" I think we will try to help, " said Grybauskaite reporters, when asked what she thinks about financial assistance to Ukraine for the purchase of gas.
on Thursday in Brussels is hosting the summit of the European Union.
Kiev and Moscow mediated EC discuss the so-called winter Plan for the period until the end of March, called again to begin gas deliveries from Russia to Ukraine and provide the opportunity for uninterrupted transit to the European Union during the coming winter. The plan provides for the repayment of Ukraine before the end of year 3, $ 1 billion debt for gas deliveries from Russia and the purchase of " Gazprom " additional amounts for the winter at a price 385 dollars per thousand cubic meters on a prepayment basis.
However, in advance, in the amount of 4 billion cubic meters, need 1, 6 billion dollars, which in Kyiv. Last October 21 Ministerial meeting in Brussels neither Ukraine nor the EU Commission did not confirm the possible sources of payment for gas supplies to the country in winter. Russia insists that assist in finding funds obligated EU.
Ukraine, agreeing to receive gas from Russia in the winter for the price of 385 dollars, insists on signing Gazprom under the appropriate document. Russia is willing to give a discount, as a result of which the cost will reach this level by reducing the government's export duties and to secure the preservation of this discount in the intergovernmental agreement, if it considers it impossible to fix contracts between Gazprom and Naftogaz, during the proceedings in the Stockholm arbitration.