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spotlight speaks to. the world's largest natural gas producer and exporter with winter just ahead they discuss the state and security of gas shipping . culture is the same of charging into federal bureaucracy to model taliban bad guys we came with being in journalism for no pay corgan station with an obvious big commitment to what is the difference between. hello again and welcome to spotlight interview show on i.t.v. i'm probably not going to be my guest in the studio is syria gape. this one of the

world's biggest that true gas producer an export or gas problem will be heating hall from the european continent and with cold season had talks about gas prices emerging again is something going to happen maybe something bad something we better be prepared for to share the news on this subject here is the official spokesman of the gas but i am sort of the. new president you cautiously craned the gas wars with russia that occurred across the continent over the two countries reached an agreement on discounts for natural gas bookkeeping returned russia got a long time lease on the sebastopol naval base but ukraine is still not happy with the gas price and prime minister putin says russia is ready to discuss another discount flukey of the most of the several european countries agreed with shown discounts for imported natural gas it seems

a good deal for the europeans who will progress in london a book a pipeline from central asia as an alternative to russian gas but some experts suggest the book was just words and no alternative to moscow's north stream and south stream pipelines. there's a mystical korean of hello thank you for coming to a program as i said the winter is coming the words gazprom winter and ukraine somehow connected in the minds of journalists could you tell us if agreements have been reached with ukraine she. said that the price would be lowered he was talking about two hundred thirty two hundred thirty five dollars for a thousand cubic meters from gazprom we have the number two hundred fifty dollars four thousand cubic meters this is how all these negotiations with ukraine going to go. we have a contract based on we calculate the price which is adjusted every quarter depending on how prices change so the different numbers that you hear at different

times contradict each other they just reflect the current situation. there have not been any new agreements on gas prices we were just discussing what price we will get you based on the formula that we have in the contract. conduct could you just clarify something for me this is all happening under the agreement that put into motion cosigned right there. well it is more appropriate to see that the deal was between good ask roman after god it is the same contract right because keef wants to revise these agreements we got a ready to revise it was. we have heard about this from our ukrainian colleagues of course we can consider different proposals and suggestions but it is the producer we're satisfied with these contracts after which so you're ready to revise the contract see if it's because some of the new ones will benefit you

even there or could there be other conditions or if they propose something that we would find interesting also not today but maybe sometime in the future well you've already mentioned it several times let's see if russians the russian people think that good relations between the two countries should influence gas prices i mean in relations between moscow and kiev spotlights. that. hi there well the recent change of course in the relations between russia and ukraine has triggered an interest. today i'll try to find out if this improving relations of the two countries. the good relations between russia and other countries should influence gas prices. i think everything should be fair i think ukraine should pay the same price for gas as any other of neighboring countries why should we lower the price for them if we do that other countries with their prices

lower too. i think we should because we need to have as many allies as we possibly can it would be even better if all these allies could surround us that we would have a more peaceful life but it is anything else would come with a price. yes i think we should lower the prices because they are our neighbors would you try to have a good relationship with your neighbors. why should we on one hand on the other hand in order to support good political interests that we have to pay the price is just you know we shouldn't lower the price because i think that everything should be based on market conditions good relations between states should be measured by some of the criteria in economic relations. yes in order to have good relations of course we should because everybody would gain from it so who would actually benefit from the creation of russia ukraine.

russia ukraine or maybe even europe. the closure who's interested in creating this consortium alluded that ukraine would be willing to make some concessions for the sake of this consortium. we think that all sides will benefit from this is for a steep interests are concerned but. because on the gas business side of things is long there is a very tight technological connection. between nafta and gas products. it was created as one system. therefore we control the system from one place you know it will be able to save more we will be able to be flexible and so on and so forth. that you will be shown how would your a benefit from this consortium. on interrupted delivery. point different

entities controls supply and transit you know ukraine is responsible for transit to russian gas prong are responsible for supply to move just one control sensor yes and the whole system will be more reliable obviously which europe will naturally benefit from these figures. is convinced that this consortium is beneficial not only to you but also to ukraine and europe see of the producers consumers transit countries absolutely everyone put you in why are you the ones who have to convince everybody and they concessions and lower prices but does it benefit you more than anybody else in my right that is anywhere near to do it i don't think so. one problems with transit to europe took place. they mostly complained to us

because they had signed contracts with us not somebody else. so when looking at such initiative. if this would help us carry out our contractual obligations. as far as ukraine is concerned. this issue has been on top of the air for a long time now. so. this is a very sensitive issue from the standpoint of politics. and it is the main reason for doubts about this consortium. we have just heard what people in the streets of moscow thing. and ask them if they thought russia should pay for this friendship in other words should gazprom to sell gas at low prices to friends and allies like ukraine belarus ukraine everybody knows

things that you see choose. i was there not too long ago during what the russians themselves called the gas war i don't know what you think but to me didn't look like a gas war because it was different from the situation in ukraine belarus thought it was a war because you wouldn't have the prices in two thousand and eleven the current agreement expires new contracts will have to be do you think it is possible that there will be another the so-called war prices will be raised. no all right yes to many different questions so all trials they're open necked to what can we expect from the situation bellerose. first of all the stuff about whether or not gas prom should be a full friendship with our allies if we look at these two examples in ukraine and belarus we will see that certain concessions that can made for them didn't truly

affect their business and then they discount the economy got this year is to basically a lower x. sports tax this money goes to the student budget and they didn't get up at a police and package deals which involved a station in the black sea fleet and it's a vast of all something that needs. this is really to pay for that you don't gasp wrong as a business was not affected by that. so you know the same with belarus about some time ago we agreed on a transitional period. for us as the producer this was a chance to prevail period the consumer for higher prices it also i'm no expert tax on gas deliveries to bell roofs which we initially did not shed so this should be green mint with ukraine expires scene of twenty nineteen issue so we're fine here i hope we don't need to warry. as far as bill russo is concerned though i just think

you're right on the contract expires next year but will have to negotiate the terms for a new agreement. at this point it is hard to say what is going to happen with these negotiations but we think that over time we have reached a mutually acceptable level of god peroration. and based on this that he and we hope you to sign a new contract. and you and i just said no to sky. you don't expect serious complications the so-called gas war was. over in the was a bloodless scene when you hope to signing you usually beneficial agreement to they look at the litany and go right well we all know the expression of hope for the best prepare for the worst how to shop all right another question about belarus.

these negotiations will affect the consumers not but the bt heating it want consumers in europe. it is a difficult question. you need any negotiations our objective is to make sure that they don't hurt anyone you know but if we are concerned about her consumers we consumers in countries where we deliver gas to. consumers in transit countries and of course every time we do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen your position there are no problems but of course there are exceptions scritching says on the gas problem spots like spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us we'll continue this interview in less than human.

died. and made him look forward to be held down say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of not going to. hear a spring of nineteen forty five on our team. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome back to spotlight i'm albert of and i just want to remind you that my guest

here in the studio today is sit again. the spokesman for russian gas problem who is the gas giant here in this country and this man could be on the mystical prion of one of the journalists favorite topics to discuss with a guest from a fishbowl at the uni is south stream is the majority's opinion that a recess stream is the near bucco pipelines rival that is this national guard gazprom has recently started work on the project and is currently negotiating with the french by need and the german by vinta shiela. should i you negotiate ing with any new partners in this project and his gazprom raid to reduce its share for the sake of new partners i'm fine each of them will know that clearly that's not enough we're going to go if i were in ca we have activated our work and since we have always been actively working on the project the fact that as you say people talk a lot about sauce three now just because. among other reasons. there is nothing to

say about nordstrom shipping into the pipeline construction is under way. you may remember that some time ago there used to be a lot of criticism and doubts about it budging it now for some reason but i actually enjoy lists. put journalists completely forgot about it when everything is fine they needed to forget about it so what's wrong with south korea since all of them out there. in a book in south through rivalry we have many times that there is no reason for such a rivalry with the south stream is it to have that delivering our gas to our rick consumers national can other words. transit they versification into and the two for delivery it's diversification. they do or is in

a pipeline he's and was created as a two for source diversification for the european consumers in this respect we do not compute it's all well read enough to be assured that our project will be implemented according to schedule and again twenty fifteen gas delivery will be performed i forgot or right now we are at this teacher when they fiza billet the study for the c. part of the project is rating which us so next year we expect it considering all the possibilities in all the options we have any know that recently mania became interested in this project to you but i was not part of this project prior to that . when you say interested do you mean that you have started negotiations already yes a direct contacts are right there just saying direct contacts that at the moment they are trying to give their proposals of how they will jump on this train which is

running fast already asked. as possible and in the first part of the next year we are to make the final decision on this pipeline through. which any final name self the intermediate geographic place is so if the route. great. question is gazprom ready to decrease its share in the project to attract new participants are you talking about the sea part of the project and i assume because regarding the lamport in every country we created joint venture and sharing it is a fifty fifty plus one cheer so obviously you've asked about this. it's an issue to be negotiated with are telling in french nurse and any new partners if they emerge . you don't comment much on the pipeline what i see however the majority of russian commentators and the next person analysts are more politicized than usual because you are more business if they tend to criticize nabucco saying

that it has little chances to get implemented it has little grounds to exist and there is nothing much to sell and cetera what do we as a representative of russian and big business. can you really say that the pipeline is not a rival to gazprom or do you have to consider it as the business that can stale a bit from your profits in the what. should i repeat once again it's a two for resource diversification we're going we're building or soft stream to increase or reliability omar deliveries in reduced transit to risks do you have that's why these are two different tasks that cannot contradict each other. for the criticism of the book i don't think i have just become that skeptical sure

enough skeptics and supporters of this. without me. i think that for example the fact that their financing. claim to be needed by state banks shows what the ratio between economic. non economic interests is. in this project. now and. we often hear that. council of ministers recently gave consent to signing a new gas agreement with russia. to it. correctly the owner of the pipeline on the polish territory is the polish state owned company system. newspapers say that this system company will perform only technical functions but

the. problem will be the real. limit company's role in maintaining this part of the pipeline that they control the pipes. in european. commission through this agreement to each hole and has already agreed. or all i have just said is not true. and the situation is as follows you probably remember that the mall europe gas pipeline in the polish part of it was built on to deprogram off delivery route diversification. and the only new key do with initially there was only one corridor that went through ukraine so in addition to that it would have a pipeline period to the polish one and sometime later would lose three most bill directly to thirty just that will be right now the polish port of the amal europe

pipeline belongs to the joint venture a europe whole gas ensuring fincher of gasper on the polish national gas company put it when you're putting to the new requirements of the european commission. guess transporting system is to be operated by an independent company and at the moment gas system which is a hundred percent polish state on company use a point two billion dependent operator we as europol gas shareholders are interested that the company receives enough revenue to be able to pay for credits. and we wanted to provide us with reasonable tariffs for gas transit through polish territory and we think that the agreements which we have signed but i want to. enable us to do so it wasn't illegal but with the intergovernmental agreement you're proving the entire package the cream and so we hope that it will be signed

soon and poland itself is interested more than anybody in it just want to come and as a community face gas deficit if it's your in the winter which is here unpleasant. it's a list system of agreements with poland to do it is just going to take up a system of only take or pay that with the leader yes of course i would. gazprom negotiating abolishment told the paper principal with other clients about me they are p. e. even you need to know when all means so you're satisfied with it right we do our best to demonstrate to our clients that it's good for them as well because if you don't consider just the current situation if you look at shared for a year or two you will see that as a long term condition it's good for everybody because our clients know that they will always have gas they will have

a secure source of energy. to the head of gas aleksei miller said that the domestic russian market is becoming the development priority for the company here i have several questions. first of all why is it a priority gas is much cheaper at the domestic market and what looks like gas problem doesn't want to earn more money and secondly it with what is it the reason for europe. if it's a car pig and then they have nothing to worry about now is for the domestic market its volume is twice as much you're so rock supports and considering their decision to shift to equally profitable domestic crisis by twenty fourteen will have to markets like europe within our countries and we won't have to build expensive pipelines. to provide the gas market which will be asked

profitable because the european market. considering that there will be no x. import tax and that we won't need to delivery of gas to remote regions for russian consumers gas will be cheaper and the wounds lose their competitive advantage based on the fact that russia. he's reaching natural gas but i share it and those of us that are not and you enjoyed it as you said russia is a region guess where does this paradox come from as i know in russia there is still no obvious supply network there even in moscow region there are many villages without a guest supply is their name to provide guests applied to every settlement in russia there are two issues here your first like you say something about cheap gas considering that it's several times cheaper than any other shanachie source like boil or you cool or anything else due to the fact that it's more convenient to use

gas in case we had to lower g.s.t. all consumers would have caused when it's going to negative profit and would have exhausted gas resources that's the first thing and now just as the price is cruel we are sure that demand will be reasonable and that we'll be able to deliver as much gets to your clients this they will need and i mean certainly in the country is huge and from the economic viewpoint it's not always profitable to see an stall of your pipe to separate the village but there are other options we could provide autonomy as gas supply would. be detained or anything that was there for cuts or all options but of course there won't be one hundred percent gas supply network it's not profitable and. it would have to think. thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was the on the spokesman for the

russian gas giant and that's it for now from all of us here if he wants your say on this show just dropped ally spotlight will be back with more first and comments on what's going on in that russia until then stay on and take.