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Ukraine says Russia ready to cut down prices for natural gas
KIEV, September 27 (Itar-Tass) - Saturday, September 24 Ukraine and
Russia reached agreement on cutting down the price of Russian natural gas
and on a downward revision of the costs of its transits to European
countries via the Ukrainian territory, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said
here Monday in the footsteps of a summit meeting that the Ukrainian
President, Viktor Yanukovich, and the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev,
had last Saturday during Yanukovich's visit to Russia.
"The two sides reached agreement on Ukraine's reduction of the transit
fee to the level of prime costs," the Zerkalo Nedeli publication quoted
Azarov as saying this at a cabinet meeting.
"Russia on its part will reduce the prices for Ukraine in two spheres
-- the budgetary and the social one," he said. "In October, the Ukrainian
and Russian experts will draft the necessary documents and the two
Presidents will fix the agreements legally when they meet in November."
The Ukrainian President's press office said upon the results of
Yanukovich's visit to Russia last Saturday that "considerable progress"
had been made at the talks with the Russian side on the supplies of gas to
this country and on the Europe-bound transits.
"This gives grounds for a hope that the two countries will achieve
concrete results meeting the interest of either country shortly," the
press office said in a report.
Earlier Monday, the Ukrainian Prime Minister's Press Secretary, Vitaly
Lukyanenko said this country's governemnt had gotten down to practical
steps under the agreement.
In the meantime, the CEO of the Russian gas industry giant Gazprom,
Alexei Miller, said Monday it is too early to speak about any specific
parameters of the agreements yet.
"It's true there's some progress but one can hardly speak about any
concrete figures at the moment," he said. "Much rather, one can speak
about a joint visioning of approaches to resolution of problems in the gas
industry."
"We came to agreement with our Ukrainian counterparts that the next
working meeting should be held before the end of this week," Miller said.
Russia reached agreement on cutting down the price of Russian natural gas
and on a downward revision of the costs of its transits to European
countries via the Ukrainian territory, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said
here Monday in the footsteps of a summit meeting that the Ukrainian
President, Viktor Yanukovich, and the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev,
had last Saturday during Yanukovich's visit to Russia.
"The two sides reached agreement on Ukraine's reduction of the transit
fee to the level of prime costs," the Zerkalo Nedeli publication quoted
Azarov as saying this at a cabinet meeting.
"Russia on its part will reduce the prices for Ukraine in two spheres
-- the budgetary and the social one," he said. "In October, the Ukrainian
and Russian experts will draft the necessary documents and the two
Presidents will fix the agreements legally when they meet in November."
The Ukrainian President's press office said upon the results of
Yanukovich's visit to Russia last Saturday that "considerable progress"
had been made at the talks with the Russian side on the supplies of gas to
this country and on the Europe-bound transits.
"This gives grounds for a hope that the two countries will achieve
concrete results meeting the interest of either country shortly," the
press office said in a report.
Earlier Monday, the Ukrainian Prime Minister's Press Secretary, Vitaly
Lukyanenko said this country's governemnt had gotten down to practical
steps under the agreement.
In the meantime, the CEO of the Russian gas industry giant Gazprom,
Alexei Miller, said Monday it is too early to speak about any specific
parameters of the agreements yet.
"It's true there's some progress but one can hardly speak about any
concrete figures at the moment," he said. "Much rather, one can speak
about a joint visioning of approaches to resolution of problems in the gas
industry."
"We came to agreement with our Ukrainian counterparts that the next
working meeting should be held before the end of this week," Miller said.
