Prime Minister sees no prospects for an extension of the contract for the transit of gas to Kiev – RIA Fresh Wind

“Gazprom” will not extend to “Naftogaz Ukraine” expiring in 2019 transit contract, if proposed conditions are unfavorable, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with the Slovenian newspaper DELO before the visit to Slovenia.
” The contract for the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory ends at the end of 2019, to be exact – at 10 am January 1, 2020. If its duration is not extended, we will not have the legal and regulatory framework for the future supply of gas through Ukraine. Experience shows that making forecasts about the prospects for Ukrainian transit – it is very ungrateful. However, it is obvious that extend the transit agreement with Ukraine on unfavorable conditions, we will not “, – assured the Russian prime minister.
” You ask me what will happen in a few years. Here we had the project “South Stream”: agreed with European partners have done a tremendous preparatory work, spent a lot of money. We are ready to begin construction were already under the Black Sea. So what? Officials in Brussels have decided that “South Stream” is not needed Europe, and not just coordinated the construction of the large-scale and strategically important for all projects. In this example, we have seen once again that political considerations prevail over the logic and economic sense “, – he said.
” However, despite this, we are ready to develop energy cooperation with the EU, to build an alternative supply routes, in the long term to meet the growing needs of the European economy. Today, a key project that should provide an uninterrupted supply of Russian gas to Europe, and especially in its south-eastern part, is a “Turkish stream.” We expect that it will be built as planned, and there is reason for this, “- said Medvedev.
According to him,” the first step has been taken – June 22 Turkey issued a permit for engineering surveys for the offshore section ” Turkish stream. ” Coordination of the project is under the Russian-Turkish intergovernmental agreement. In the near future we will begin negotiations with the companies, which will lay the first line. His interest in the project in addition to the confirmed Turkey, Hungary, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia “.

Source: Interfax.ru

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