Creating an east European energy hub will allow Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania to become energy independent from Russia, said Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy.
“We’ve discussed joint actions in energy security … In particular, we are talking about the idea of creating a single energy hub and combining our efforts – both combining our power plants and supplying gas, since liquefied gas that is supplied to the Baltics today and gas storage facilities that exist in Ukraine together can create a large complex … which will allow us to fully embrace energy independence from Russia,” Parubiy said at a joint press conference with the speakers of the parliaments of Poland and Lithuania in Vilnius on Tuesday.
A resolution passed following the ninth meeting of the Ukraine-Poland-Lithuania interparliamentary assembly supports efforts to develop the east European hub by combining critical infrastructure (power lines, gas pipelines, gas storages, rail and road networks) of the assembly’s member states, as well as the infrastructure of the border regions between Poland and Ukraine, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has said.
As earlier reported, the ninth meeting of the Ukraine-Poland-Lithuania interparliamentary assembly was held in Vilnius on November 12-13.
