Under no circumstances current government would allow giving up
ownership of Ukraine's gas transit system in exchange for favors in
certain contracts, said President Viktor Yanukovych at his today’s press
conference, presidential press office reported.
"We were never up to that and would never allow
such thing to happen," emphasized Viktor Yanukovych.
He also
said it is necessary to modernize Ukraine’s gas transit system in order
to increase transit of gas through Ukraine. According to him, this
project is separated into three stages.
First, Bohorodchany-Uzhhorod gas pipeline will be constructed to
increase transit by 10 billion cubic meters.
The second stage
includes modernization of the existing transit system: replacement of
the old equipment with new, more economical, thus, increasing the
transit by 20-25 billion cubic meters.
In the final stage of
modernization, new lines will be built in addition to those existing,
allowing further increase of transit.
"We offer this as an
alternative to construction of the South Stream, for the construction of
the North Stream is already going on. So now we are looking for an
opportunity to negotiate Ukraine at least keeping the transit amounts,
current transit system is capable of," summarized President Yanukovych.
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