President Victor Yushchenko stands for holding a trilateral
Ukraine-Russia-EU Summit to discuss the dispute about transit of
Russian gas through Ukrainian territory to Europe, president's press office reproted.
According to him, because Russia is a party to the dispute and
therefore may not hold such a summit at its territory, good places for
the meeting could become Prague, as capital of the presiding in the EU
Czech Republic, or Brussels, where EU Commission headquarters is
situated.
In her turn, premier Yulia Tymoshenko said that Ukraine supports initiative of Czech Prime
Minister Mirek Topolanek to
hold a high-level energy summit of the European import and transit countries of
the Russian gas.
At her meeting with Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Serhii Stanishev the Head of Ukrainian Government said that summit on the
gas conflict should be held on neutral territory, “We’d like this summit to be
held in a capital of any European state, not involved in the conflict to have
some basis for free negotiations”.
The Prime Minister of
Ukraine stressed that Ukraine
is ready to provide all necessary documents concerning the gas issue and gas
transit to Europe. Besides, according to Yulia Tymoshenko,
Ukraine is also ready to
sign a technical contract with the Russian Federation. “We are ready
to spare no effort to get gas flowing to Europe,”
the Head of Government stressed.
