The Voice of Russia: Ukrainian Energy Minister to discuss reverse gas supply via Slovakia with EU's Oettinger in Brussels

Guenther Oettinger, Europan Commmissioner for Energy, and Yury Prodan, Verkhovna Rada-appointd Ukrainian Minister of Energy and the Coal Industry, meet here on Wednesday to discuss matters concerning a reverse supply of natural gas to Ukraine via Slovakia and prospects for a resumption of three-sided talks on natural gas among Moscow, Kiev, and Brussels. The meeting will be a closed-door one and no specific decisions are expected to be made, an official in the European Commission (EC) press service said.

"The meeting will be of technical nature and will be held in a closed-door mode," the EC official pointed out.

According to to the TASS news agency, at the meeting, Ukraine expects to discuss the possibility of giving greater scope to reverse deliveries of gas from Slovakia. The European Commission intends to study the possibility of a resumption in mid-July of the three-sided talks among Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union on prices of natural gas and Kiev's debt.
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