Prime Minister of
Ukraine Mykola Azarov met with EU Commissioner for Energy Gunter Oettinger.
Prime Minister
stressed that Ukraine had fulfilled the conditions for accession to the
European energy community: "I want to give
you our application to join the European Energy Community. We
ask the Commission to consider
the correspondence of
our Law "On the gas market" and make the
decision," Mykola Azarov said, Cabinet's press office reported.
Guenter Oettinger promised that next week the European
Commission would review the Law of Ukraine "On principles of natural gas market functioning" according to EU norms. He noted that adoption of the law is a big step
forward in solving the problems that remain in energy
sector. "There are still some issues that
need to be checked
and solved. It is necessary to conduct some reforms, but it is in our common
interest. I think that Ukraine's membership in the European Energy Community
could become a reality over the next six months - a year," the European
Commissioner for Energy
said.
Mykola Azarov supported
the proposal of Guenter Oettinger
to organize a tripartite meeting at the highest level between Ukraine, the EU, and Russia to
consider issues that certainly present common interests:
energy security, long-term agreement on gas supply and transportation, reducing
energy consumption. The
Head of the Government said that the proposal could be discussed
soon with Prime Minister of
Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
The Prime
Minister noted that Ukraine is interested in upgrading its
own GTS and is ready to invest heavily in this project. "But we must have
assurances that the European Union will buy a certain amount of Russian gas
transported by our territory, and Russia will sell the appropriate amount of
gas. Provided that there
are the seller and
the buyer - it makes sense to invest in upgrading the GTS," he said.
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