(RIA Novosti) Russian
President Vladimir Putin met Thursday with participants of Ukrainian-Russian
gas negotiations and criticized the Russian and Ukrainian energy sectors for
turning a dispute over prices for natural gas into a crisis between the two
countries.
"You have created a
crisis not only in the energy sector," Putin said. "This crisis looks
more like crisis between two countries."
In this connection
"We are ready to grant
a loan directly to Naftogaz to be secured by a leading international bank,
either European or American," President Vladimir Putin told participants
in Russian-Ukrainian gas talks.
In his turn,
"We are working on
three documents - two contracts [on gas transit and deliveries] and an
underlying intergovernmental protocol for 2006," Viktor Khristenko said at
a meeting between the Russian president and gas negotiators.
"For the moment, the
only undisputed figure is the volume of possible gas transit to
As for the other figures,
including both the volume of deliveries and price, the sides have not yet
reached an agreement, the minister said.
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