The EBRD has decided to allocate for the restoration of the Ukrainian GTS 200 million dollars
The European Bank for restoration and development (EBRD) is willing to provide a loan of 200 million dollars to the Ukrainian authorities for restoration of the operator Ukrtransgaz gas pipeline " Urengoy ? Pomary-Uzhgorod ", transmitting gas from Russia to the European Union across the country. As stated in the Bank on Thursday, the Board of Directors blesed this project yesterday, according to news Agency ". According to the materials of the EBRD funds will be used to replace the 4 sections of the main gas pipeline " Urengoy - Pomary - Uzhgorod ", requiring major repair, and modernization of gas-compressor station " Romny ". Says that the signing of the project is scheduled for the visit of Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Brussels fifteen December. Remember, December 1, Ukraine signed an agreement on the restoration and modernization of the gas pipeline " Urengoy - Pomary - Uzhgorod " with the European investment Bank (EIB) in the amount of 150 million euros. In mid-August, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted a law that allows the government to make the operator of the gas transportation system of the country in which the share of up to 49% will be able to get investors from the US and the EU. At the insistence of the people's representatives in the document was subject to normal approval of the shareholders of the operator GTS specifically by the Verkhovna Rada.