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Ukraine wants EU help for 4.2-billion-dollar gas loan
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 18 - 06 - 2009

Ukraine wants the EU to help it organize a loan of 4.2 billion dollars in order to buy natural gas from Russia which
would be consumed in Europe, dpa quoted a top official as saying today.
"We are asking for assistance to make a loan from international
monetary organizations and financial organizations, to have a credit
of 4.2 billion dollars," Igor Didenko, deputy head of Ukraine's gas
monopoly Naftogaz, said after a meeting with EU officials.
"We are asking the representatives of EU countries to bring the
idea to the heads of the EU member states" at a summit in Brussels on
Thursday evening, he said.
The ideal solution would be the signature of a credit agreement to
allow Ukraine to buy Russian gas, which it would store and sell on to
European customers in the winter.
"We are very full of expectation that maybe tonight at the dinner
or in the next one to two weeks this question would have a decision
in principle," Didenko said.
In January, a dispute between Ukraine and Russia's gas monopoly,
Gazprom, cut off gas supplies to a swathe of EU states in Central and
Eastern Europe.
Last week, the Czech government, which currently holds the EU's
rotating presidency, and the commission, the EU's executive, sent a
team of experts to Russia and Ukraine amidst fears that Ukraine might
be unable to pay Gazprom for gas which it would store during the
summer and then sell on to EU customers in the winter.
Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso will brief EU leaders on the
report at Thursday's summit, commission energy spokesman Ferran
Tarradellas said.
But ahead of the summit, top officials said that the experts had
concluded that Ukraine would be unable to pay for EU-bound gas in
July - with serious effects for the EU's consumers.
"Of course it's an issue again. It's not very clear what the
reasons are, whether it's just that the Ukrainian government has no
money or whether it is some kind of new strategy from (Russian) prime
minister (Vladimir) Putin," Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius
Kubilius told the German Press Agency dpa.
However, the summit was unlikely to propose concrete solutions,
Kubilius said.
"The EU has no such funds to step in. Perhaps European gas
infrastructure companies will have to have some kind of arrangement,
but that is up to the companies," he said.


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