Arseniy Yatsenyuk: South Stream is the project aimed at enhancing energy dependence of Europe

The South Stream project has nothing in common with energy security, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk declared during the VR session on Tuesday, June 3.

He informed before the presidential elections there had been made two attempts of terrorist attacks on Ukraine’s gas transporting system on the territory of Ivano-Frankivsk region: “We have managed to avoid both victims and halt of transit”.

“But we perfectly realize that such attempts were aimed at discrediting of Ukrainian gas transporting system, were aimed at disruption of transit, aimed at providing an evidence for our western partners that Ukraine is an unstable state and were aimed at the most important – making the South Stream legitimate”.

The position of the Government remains invariable, the PM announced: “We consider the South Stream is the project that is designed to increase energy dependence of Europe, the project which is called to remove Ukraine from the common energy policy with the European Union and the project which is aimed at reinforcement of positions of the Russia’s Gazprom in Europe. And it has nothing in common with energy security”.

He called upon the European Union to block the South Stream.

“Ukraine is a reliable transit country. We have upheld our commitments and will stick to them, if Russia doesn’t interfere,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk highlighted.