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Itar-Tass January 1, 2006 Russia warns Ukraine against possible siphoning of transit gas -"The highly deplorable fact is that Ukraine makes groundless attempts to apportion all responsibility for this problem to Russia in response to all the moves from Moscow, and a proof of that is found in the note the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued December 31." -"The note embodies an attempt to blackmail the European countries by threats of siphoning the transit gas that is bound for Europe. "Moscow gets an impression that Ukrainian authorities have a shortage of confidence and they decided to break up negotiations on the price of gas so as to be able to build an image of foe and thus to manipulate the internal political situation, including the terms of parliamentary election." MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Ministry has warned Ukrainian government against attempts to siphon Russian natural gas transported to European countries via Ukrainian transit pipelines. A statement the ministry issued says Russia hopes Ukraine will guarantee uninterrupted transits of gas to the European Union as specified in a number of international documents, including the European Energy Charter, and will make all the essential steps to avert siphoning of the fuel from pipelines. "If that does not happen, however, Ukraine will bear the full brunt of responsibility for possible complications of relationship with Russia in the gas sector and for the problems that European countries will be faced with," the statement says. "Moscow has made enough efforts over the past several weeks to solve the gas problem on the basis of principles of market economy and mutual benefits," it says. The ministry recalls that the Russian side, and President Vladimir Putin personally, came up with a number of compromise solutions for settling the critical situation. "Thus, Moscow offered a discounted commercial loan but Ukraine turned the proposal down," the statement says. "Russia made a new and exceptionally privileged offer December 31, which envisioned a postponement of new prices during the first quarter of next year, when arrangements for a transition to new prices could be made." "The highly deplorable fact is that Ukraine makes groundless attempts to apportion all responsibility for this problem to Russia in response to all the moves from Moscow, and a proof of that is found in the note the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued December 31," the statement says. "The note embodies an attempt to blackmail the European countries by threats of siphoning the transit gas that is bound for Europe," it says. "Moscow gets an impression that Ukrainian authorities have a shortage of confidence and they decided to break up negotiations on the price of gas so as to be able to build an image of foe and thus to manipulate the internal political situation, including the terms of parliamentary election," the statement says. "Given this situation, Russia confirms that it will build relations with Ukraine in the gas sector as of January 1, 2006, with account of European prices of natural gas and transportation services," it indicates. "Russia will work towards the fostering of energy security and, generally, economic cooperation in Europe and will scrupulously observe all the decisions and contracts with our partners in the European Union and other countries of Europe in what concerns the exports of natural gas," the ministry says. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Clean water saves lives. Help make water safe for our children. http://us.click.yahoo.com/CHhStB/VREMAA/E2hLAA/1dTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> =============== Group Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
