Scheduled for Saturday tripartite talks between Russia, the European Commission and Ukraine on gas dispute will not take place on that day – said a spokeswoman for the Department of Energy in Moscow. – You need to set a different date – she said.
The Russians previously reported that they have received an official invitation from the European Commission for consultation.
The term has postponed talks. The Ukrainian side proposed that negotiations took place on September 16 in Vienna, the European Commission last week set them on 20 September in Berlin, Germany. The talks in the German capital were also aimed at limiting the supply of gas from Russia to Polish, as long as the reasons for this reduction were different than technical.
Ukraine, Russia and the EC led tripartite consultations gas from mid-June. In late August, the Russian energy minister Alexander Nowak said his country and Ukraine agree to a meeting on September 6, but the date has been agreed with the European Commission. Then press services of EU Commissioner. Guenther Oettinger Energy reported that the trilateral talks could take place in mid-September.
Russia in mid-June interrupted gas supplies to Ukraine, which refused to pay inflated prices for the raw material after the change of power in Kiev from the pro-Russian to pro-Western. According to the Russian energy minister Ukraine owes for gas 5.3 billion.
The gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine raises the threat of disruption of the supply of Russian gas to the EU via Ukraine, as it was in 2006 and 2009, during the previous “gas wars”. The European Commission is trying to reach an agreement between Russia and Ukraine, but previous attempts at mediation failed.
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