PM at Ukraine - EU summit: We want our European friends to be shareholders of Ukrainian GTS

"We want our European friends and partners to be shareholders of the Ukrainian gas transportation system. This will be the best answer to the energy independence of Ukraine and the European Union," Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed during the Ukraine - EU summit in Kyiv on Monday, 27 April.

Such a step, according to him, would create "a new quality energy policy in general in Europe": "This will prevent any monopoly from influencing our common independent policy and the right to determine for whom and how much to purchase and how to transit gas within the rules and standards of the European Union."

Arseniy Yatsenyuk reminded that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine had adopted a number of laws, including those aimed at implementing the principles of the Third Energy Package in Ukraine.

The Prime Minister also underlined that "it is difficult to mention any country in the modern history of Europe and the world," that faced such challenges as Ukraine currently: "Despite the fact that over the past year Ukraine has lost 20% of its economy through Russian military aggression. We believe that reforms should be supported by direct investment in the Ukrainian economy."