Ukraine has made concessions in negotiations with Russia on the gas issue. Kiev is now ready to buy natural gas at the price of $326 for one thousand cubic meters during consideration of its claim by the Stockholm Arbitration Court, the head of the Ukrainian company Naftogaz, Andrey Kobolev declared."Now the dispute between Russia and Ukraine is in the range of $265.5 per thousand cubic meters of gas - this is the price which operated at the beginning of this year and $385 is the price urged by Gazprom. The final price, certainly, isn't the market one," RIA Novosti quotes Kobolev."The average price of the range of $385-268.5 per thousand cubic meter is $326. We consider it is too high all the same… But as this price can be used as the intermediate price, that is, it can be coordinated, for example, for one and a half years, - in one and a half years Ukraine will pay off at this price.Ukraine will be to repay the unpaid debt for the past periods and to establish an accurate schedule of calculation on the future … during this period we will agree about establishing a fair price, or we will resolve this issue in Stockholm," Kobolev added.
Ukraine has made concessions in negotiations with Russia on the gas issue. Kiev is now ready to buy natural gas at the price of $326 for one thousand cubic meters during consideration of its claim by the Stockholm Arbitration Court, the head of the Ukrainian company Naftogaz, Andrey Kobolev declared.
"Now the dispute between Russia and Ukraine is in the range of $265.5 per thousand cubic meters of gas - this is the price which operated at the beginning of this year and $385 is the price urged by Gazprom. The final price, certainly, isn't the market one," RIA Novosti quotes Kobolev.
"The average price of the range of $385-268.5 per thousand cubic meter is $326. We consider it is too high all the same… But as this price can be used as the intermediate price, that is, it can be coordinated, for example, for one and a half years, - in one and a half years Ukraine will pay off at this price.
Ukraine will be to repay the unpaid debt for the past periods and to establish an accurate schedule of calculation on the future … during this period we will agree about establishing a fair price, or we will resolve this issue in Stockholm," Kobolev added.
