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Russian President Vladimir Putin assured US President Donald Trump of Russia’s readiness to preserve gas transit via after the completion of construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine, adding that Gazprom will extend the gas transit contract with Naftogaz of Ukraine after 2019, but only if the gas dispute is settled in the Stockholm Arbitration, an UNIAN correspondent in Russia reports.

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