EU and Ukraine ready to hold trilateral meeting on gas early next year

The European Commission Vice President for the Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič and Ukraine's Minister for Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin held a bilateral meeting in Brussels yesterday.

The meeting was focused on the ongoing trilateral talks with Russia and Ukraine on the long-term transit of gas to Europe and the unbundling of Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine. 

According to the European Commission's statement, both sides have expressed their intention to hold a next trilateral meeting at the political level in the beginning of 2019. 

The meeting will possibly be preceded by a technical meeting involving experts, the statement added.