Specialist USA: Ukraine need urgent reform of the energy sector
Maria Chaplygin. The new leadership of Ukraine should, without delay, proceed to the reform of the energy sector of the country, said the employee of the American Center for strategic and international studies (CSIS) Edward Chow (Edward Chow).
" need urgently to begin for a long time the forgotten reform of the energy sector, the most relative to the pricing system, to increase the effectiveness and energy production within the country, as well as to diversify the sources of energy imports, " the analyst said in an interview Last news .
in his vision, the Russian Federation and Ukraine obliged the interests of both parties to resolve their gas discussions, and otherwise " the crisis in gas supply during the coming winter will hurt both countries to a great extent "." Ukraine is a very big market for Russian gas, besides fifty percent of exports of gas from Russia through that country and Russia cannot be bypassed Ukraine, until not completed the " South stream ", which will take another three to five years, " recalls Chow.
In proshedshiy Monday, Russia received from Ukraine 1st payment for repayment of the debt for gas is $ 786 million us dollars, that in 2, 5 times less than the amount announced by the results of previous tripartite negotiations - 2 billion dollars.
The head of the Ministry of energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak said that Russia is still waiting for Ukraine to pay off the remaining debt for November-December 1, 451 billion during the week and the beginning of payments for April-may.
According to the head of the Ministry of energy of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan, Kiev challenges the gas price in force until 1 January 2014 (385, 5 dollars per thousand cubic meters), and the amount in 786 million dollars only unchallenged part of the debt.
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