Ukraine to lose $1 bln as result of Naftogaz-Gazprom agts-official
12:52, 21 January 2009
KIEV. January 21. KAZINFORM As a result of agreements signed by the heads of Naftogaz and Gazprom, Ukraine will lose over 1 billion US dollars, Bogdan Sokolovsky, the Ukrainian president?s envoy for energy affairs, said on the Channel 5 TV on Tuesday evening.
?We are trying to comfort ourselves that we have got a 20-percent discount on which we will save 2.2 billion US dollars,? he said. ?However, owing to the fact that our transit tariff is 1.7 US dollars and not 4 dollars as in Slovakia, we will lose in the transit about 3.4 billion dollars. If we balance the result, we have over 1 billion US dollars? to the disadvantage of Ukraine, he noted.
Sokolovsky said that the presidential secretariat has not received yet even the copies of the decisions signed by the Naftogaz and Gazprom heads.
The presidential envoy expressed the view that the delegation that conducted talks in Moscow on natural gas supplies should report to the president on the fulfilment of directives given by him, Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS.