Yurii Prodan: Ukraine to ensure uninterrupted gas transit to European states
The Minister
of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Yurii Prodan has held a briefing at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
on March 3.
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Talking to
media people the Minister, in particular, gave answers to the questions joined
to transportation of gas to the states of Europe following recent events in
Ukraine. “Ukraine ensures and will further uninterrupted transportation of the
Russian gas to Europe,” the Minister assured. “The current situation in
Crimea will not influence gas transit,” the head of Ministry of Energy and
Coal Industry stressed. Moreover,
Yurii Prodan informed he
didn’t exclude raise of gas price for the population in connection with the
demands of the International Monetary Fund with regards to non-deficit
balance of the Naftogaz of Ukraine company. “There is
the task to make the Naftogaz company non-deficit
and, as is known, it is the IMF requirement. The IMF representatives will
come tomorrow. We will definitely hold negotiations with them about how to
achieve this non-deficit balance of the Naftogaz,” the
Minister informed and stressed he could not forecast how much the gas price
would grow for communal heating and energy supply enterprises and the population
and what schedule it would follow. Besides, the
Minister informed within nearest time Ukraine intended to pay to Gazprom for the current consumption of gas in February of
2014. It should
be noted that daily transit of Russian gas through Ukraine’s territory to
Europe for March 1 made up 200 mln cu m against 225
mln cu m in the previous year. |