Ukraine Insists on Revising Formula on Agreement on Gas Supplies
OREANDA-NEWS. April 22, 2011. Ukraine steadily fulfils legal agreement with Russia on gas supplies, but will continue negotiations to revise the formula unfair gas prices. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov told this during the National Seminar journalists of regional media.
"We will fulfill it unless agree with Russia on review - I again emphasize - bonded for Ukraine contract, the agreement which formed the negative development of Ukrainian economy", - Mykola Azarov said. He emphasized that the agreement written so that Ukraine can not break it unilaterally.
"When we meet with Russian leaders, says: formula - unfair, formula is not market, why for this formula gas price for Ukraine is more expensive than the price of gas that you sell in Germany or in Poland, even with the Kharkiv agreements, - the Head of Government noted.
According to him, if had not been signed Kharkov agreement, according to the contract signed by former The Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine would receive gas at the price 533 USD per thousand cubic meters.
Yesterday during a meeting with President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Thomas Mirow the Prime Minister said that Ukraine were holding negotiating with Russia on gas prices. “While too early to talk about results, but the process has begun”, - told Mykola Azarov.
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