Ukraine will pay no more than $179 for gas Timoshenko
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Government of Yulia
Timoshenko will not allow signing an
agreement on natural gas supplies to Ukraine in 2008 at a price
exceeding USD179.5 per 1,000 cubic meters. The Ukrainian prime
minister made the statement on March 11 in Brussels, REGNUM correspondent reports referring to Timoshenko's press service.
Timoshenko, in particular, informed that a Naftogaz
of Ukraine Company delegation that is negotiating with Gazprom in
Moscow, received a strict directive from the government. It is
straightforwardly said in the directive that signing any gas price
over USD179.5 per 1,000 cubic meters is prohibited — there can be
no other price. It is also said in the directive that all natural gas
that Ukraine received in 2007 has to be charged at a rate not
exceeding USD130 per 1,000 cubic meters, including the gas that was
pumped into underground storages last year and used today.