Ukrainian, Polish presidents say gas supply crises era is a bygone
LONDON. October 2. KAZINFORM The presidents of Ukraine and Poland, Viktor Yanukovych and Bronislaw Komorowski, believe that the era of crises in gas supply is gone never to return, British media cite the Ukrainian presidential press service as saying. The two presidents spoke on energy security at the 7th annual Yalta meeting Ukraine and the World: Redefining Perspectives, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
"In the near future there will be no problems with the transit of energy supplies to Europe either in Ukraine or from Russia. Europe can be calm," Yanukovich said.
"The stability of energy supplies cannot be achieved without the formation of even and long-term relations between the countries producing, transporting and consuming them," Yanukovych replied, when asked about European energy security. He added that to ensure the stability of Russian gas supplies Ukraine had for many years needed to establish a positive climate in relations with Russia. Yanukovych said that such a climate had been achieved recently.
Komorowski expressed the opinion that to ensure the stability of energy supplies it would be necessary to diversify their sources. In this regard, he called for expanding the Odessa-Brody pipeline project. It was built to pump Caspian oil from the Black Sea coast of Ukraine to the Baltic coast of Poland, but currently it is used in the reverse mode to pump Russian oil to Odessa, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com