“Ukraine
obtained the best and lowest price for Russian natural gas,” Prime Minister of
Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko
told a briefing today.
“Ukraine, except
Belarus, has the lowest gas price in the world for 2009. If we take the ratio
of transit cost and fuel gas cost used for pumping, I can claim that for
Ukraine this ratio is the best,” the Prime Minister stated.
Yulia Tymoshenko
noted that Ukraine and Russia had agreed about the formula of calculating gas
price for 10 years in advance. “It won’t be necessary any more to grovel at
somebody's feet and beg for a special price, special terms for Ukraine, no need
to think every Christmas and New Year what gas crisis Ukraine will face,” she
stressed.
Yulia Tymoshenko
also stated that she would have signed under no circumstances the contracts
which could back the interests of Ukraine in second place.
Source:Government Portal
