UNIAN: EU schedules talks on gas transit via Ukraine

By UNIAN.

Published June 15, 2018 at 12:57 pm

A compressor station of Ukraine's Naftogaz national oil and gas company near the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Ukraine has completed the process of separating its gas production company from its gas distribution network. Naftogaz and the transmission system operator will now be separate entities working independently of one another. Unbundling the gas system was a long-await reform critical to Ukraine’s greater integration with the European Union.

Photo by AFP

Trilateral talks between the European Union, Ukraine and the Kremlin on the transit of gas through the territory of Ukraine are scheduled for early July.

“Time is a precious commodity. I hope to start working with Russia & Ukraine on the trilateral gas agenda in early July. Complex negotiations ahead,” European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic wrote on Twitter.