OREANDA-NEWS. January 23, 2009. On the assumption of timely payment by all consumers for the gas, the NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine won’t have financial problems. First Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov told briefing.

Oleksandr Turchynov calls the Presidential Secretariat statements about a new price disbalancing the NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine budget groundless, “Myths are thrust on the society that these contracts complicate the financial state of Naftogaz.

He noted that one of the most important achievements of the Ukraine-Russia gas talks is that Ukraine and Naftogaz had succeeded to remove such “unnecessary, unreasonable and dangerous unit” as RosUkrEnergo. According to the First Vice Prime Minister, the absence of mediator in the Ukrainian-Russian gas relations will only strengthen the financial state of Naftogaz.

At the same time, Oleksandr Turchynov says that problems which Ukraine has faced at the beginning of 2009 should put some conclusion on everybody that we must pay for gas. “Conclusions should be done not only by leadership of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy and Naftogaz but, very important, by all the gas consumers: we should timely pay for the consumed gas. Every consumer should be responsible for it,” he stressed.

As Oleksandr Turchynov stated, if the consumed gas is timely paid, Naftogaz will face no financial problems.

“The NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine resources both proper and imported allow to provide gas for all Ukrainian consumers. Now the Ukrainian consumers consume the gas, including the big enterprises,” Oleksandr Turchynov said.