Administrative actions by the European Union to manage the gas market cannot but arouse concern. |
Arbitration is a last resort, but if Ukraine is ready to do this we are ready too. |
Eighty percent of our gas transits through Ukraine, which was the motive behind our Ukrainian colleagues' decision to start to blackmail us ... But we are ready to go to the Swedish court in the event of Ukraine's unsanctioned use of gas. |
Gas in Ukraine remains above envisaged volumes, which prevents us from fully meeting our obligations to foreign customers. |
Having come across the undeniable fact of theft of our gas from the export pipe and in order to ensure energy security for Europe, we have decided to take all possible measures to ensure that Western consumers continue to receive gas in accordance with the contracts in effect. |
If siphoning continues on such a scale, the stolen amount will be quite significant. |
If the theft continues at this pace, the volume and cost of the stolen gas will rise quite considerably. |
If there is no contract, there will be no supplies. |
If there isn't a (new) contract, there won't be deliveries. |
Negotiations are under way and I do hope they can finish before the year end. |
One gets the impression that our president was more concerned about the problems of the Ukrainian people than its own leadership, since energy is vital for any country's economy. |
Preserving such a situation would mean encouraging theft on the path of our gas to Europe. Therefore, all our foreign partners are warned that, while we are doing everything possible to keep up our gas exports to Europe, Ukraine would bear all the responsibility for any possible disruption of exports. |
Since the EU has applied a market economy status to Ukraine then Ukraine should live up to that. |
The action of the European administration raises serious worries. |
The amount of gas that remains in Ukraine exceeds the originally expected amounts. This does not allo w us to fully comply with our obligations to foreign consumers. |