Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko is confident
that European expert commission will help Ukraine to protect its reputation of
a reliable transit state of natural gas to the European Union countries. She
stated after talks with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek.
According to the Head of Ukrainian
Government, international experts will have an opportunity to become acquainted
with all necessary information, data of measuring instruments, this will allow to
ascertain whether there were breaches on the part of Ukraine of gas transit to
Europe. “I am confident that conclusions will be objective and evidence that
Ukraine took not a gram of the Russian gas without contract but at the same
time realized gas transit to Europe without hindrance,” the Prime Minister of
Ukraine noted.
Yulia Tymoshenko believes that experts’ conclusions should be
public, “I want the conclusions to be made public and Ukraine to protect its good
name”.
At the same time the Premier noted that Ukraine and Russia should independently pass their way regarding the price formation and transit tariff, “We have to work out strategic approaches to solving these issues which remove such problems for all. I believe, there is a chance”.
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