KHARKIV - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hopes to achieve a significant progress in talks on the gas issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Milan.
‘We are very close to the settlement of the gas dispute with Russia. I hope that a significant progress will be shown in Milan on October 17, next Friday,’ he said at a briefing in Kharkiv on Saturday.
The president noted that the issue of energy security would be discussed along with other issues – the peace plan, the ceasefire regime, and the verification of observing the Minsk agreements.
Poroshenko stressed that the problem is not only in the opposition between Naftogaz and Gazprom, appeal to the Stockholm arbitration, but in the fact that it is necessary to find a compromise.
‘The question is to achieve a compromise that will allow to use the reasonable financial capacity of Ukraine to ensure gas transit and gas deliveries to the country. We believe that the proposals of Ukraine are absolutely clear, specific and reasonable. We believe that we are much closer to the settlement of the issue than ever before,’ the president said.
