“It should be remembered that natural gas transport Consortium, if established, would deprive Ukraine of a significant proportion of transit earnings,” said today, 13 January, in an interview to the correspondent BakuToday Ukrainian political scientist Vitalii Bala said.
“In any case, for natural gas transport Consortium-Ukraine tripartite option is more beneficial than a consortium involving only Ukraine and Russia. If in fact there are talks, Ukraine’s efforts in this direction, “said Bala. “Europe participation in the Consortium, too, of course, you need to. The presence of the EU in the process of transiting Russian gas will make it virtually impossible for the winter termination of transit, which took place three years ago. Of course, all parties will have to invest money in the project, and you must not forget that the total cost of the transit of gas through the territory of Ukraine will decrease, i.e., our country will receive less money, “said Vitaly Bala.
In turn, Ukrainian Economist Alexei Komarov said that European oligarchs would not support a draft gas transportation Consortium with Ukraine and Russia. “In fact, the EU is, so to speak, two centres of decision-making. The first is the European Commission: officials. And the second is big business, the major European corporations. The past prefer to work with Russian “Gazprom”, which is responsible for their words, for their decisions. In turn, the State is quite slow and little effective machinery, so statements by European officials can hardly be taken seriously, “said the mosquitoes.
“EU officials unsuccessfully tried to implement a long time and many economic projects, the same gas pipeline NABUCCO, and so on. Says many words, but really, nothing happens. And I think that a serious European business will not participate in the project of a transmission Consortium Europe, Ukraine and Russia. Not because the stakes are too high political risks in Ukraine. We have every two years changing policy, and now appears to be brewing any serious changes in relation to the failures of Government. Therefore, serious people will not communicate with someone who is not responsible for their words, “said the mosquitoes.
As reported BakuToday, on the eve of the EU Commissioner for energy Günther Oettinger in a telephone conversation with the Minister of energy of Ukraine Yuri Boyko stated that Ukraine, signing a new agreement with Russia in the energy sector, should honour their commitments made at the time of its accession to the agreement on the energy community. As Commissioner Rehn said: “If the EU wishes to Ukraine and Russia, want to engage in tripartite consultations concerning the transit of gas at any time. The Commission remains ready to continue as active support to the reform of the Ukrainian energy sector and modernize the infrastructure of the transit of gas to Ukraine in order to ensure its preservation as a key part of the Pan-European energy network “.
