| niknikolay.livejournal.com Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with foreign media.08.01.09.Part 5 Председатель Правительства Российской Федерации В.В.Путин провел встречу(пресс-конференцию) с представителями иностранных СМИ.08.01.09.Part 5 As you know, a delegation of Gazprom is in Brussels today. It has already met with the European Commission. We have proposed, or rather agreed with the proposal of the German Chancellor, Mrs Merkel (she rang up yesterday) and we had a talk. In my opinion, she made a very good proposal: to send international observers to the gas pumps. We fully agree with that. We believe it should be done as quickly as possible. We are ready to have these observers on our territory. Of course they should also go to Ukrainian territory, to the stations which pump our gas towards Europe via all the main pipelines: to the Balkans, to Central Europe and to Western Europe. Gazprom has proposed to the European Commission a protocol on the procedure of the functioning of such an auditing commission and its possible participants. From the Russian side the document has already been signed by the Energy Ministry and by Gazprom. Unfortunately, Mr Barroso and the gentleman - I would hate to distort his name - the head of the Energy Commission... yes, Piebalgs, our partners from the European Commission have so far refused to sign the protocol because they say it calls for a mandate from all the European Union countries. I think this is in a way a moment of ... |
