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of shipping. would be useless without this mineral. is needed to make. a piece of culture and is extracted at a cost to life. hello again and welcome to spotlight. on i t. v my guest in the studio

is syria gate. this one of the world's biggest that producer and exporter. will be heating hall from the european continent and with cold season had talks about gas prices. 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 a. new presidential 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 return 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 enough to discount flukey of the most of the several european countries agreed with discounts for imported natural gas it seems

a good deal for the europeans who progress in london from central asia is an attorney to russian gas but some experts suggest the book lose just words and no alternative to moscow's north stream and south stream pipeline. thank you for coming to a program as i said the winter is coming the words yes prom winter and ukraine somehow connected in the minds of journalists could you tell us if agreements have been reached with ukraine. the price would be lower and he was talking about two hundred thirty two hundred thirty five dollars. four thousand cubic meters from gazprom we have the number two hundred fifty dollars four thousand cubic meters how are these negotiations with ukraine going to go to. we have a contract based on which 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 so there have not been any new agreements on gas prices we were just discussing what price we will get based on the formula that we have in the contract. conduct and you just clarify something for me this is all happening under the agreement that put into machine cosigned right there well it is more appropriate to see that they do was between gas croman after god it is the same contracts right because i gave once to revise these agreements we got a ready to revise it was. we have heard. from our ukrainian colleagues of course we can consider different proposals and suggestions but it is the producer and we are satisfied with these contracts. which so you are ready

to revise the contract see if it's because some of the new ones will benefit you even more 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 expense regarding gas prices 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 neighboring countries why should we lower the price for them if we do other

countries with their prices 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 we have to pay the price 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 the economic relations. 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 state interests are concerned but. because on the gas business side of things is there is a very tight technological connection. between nafta and gas profit sharing and 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 more 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 of water if we have one control center yes and the whole system will be more reliable obviously which europe will naturally benefit from from steve you know because these he. is convinced that this consortium is beneficial not only to you but also to the ukrainian to europe c. of the produces 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. when 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 and european 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. for ukraine 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 sell gas at low prices to friends and allies like ukraine belarus ukraine everybody knows things

that. 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 with 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 the 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 that out of the package deals which involve stationing the black sea fleet and it's a vast of all something that needs. to take is really to pay for that gasper as a business was not affected by that. so you know the same with belarus. some time ago we agreed on a transitional period that could hold them to four ounces 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 bill roofs which we initially did not shed so this should be green into the ukraine expires scene of twenty nineteen issues so we're fine here i

hope we don't need to war. as far as they'll roost is concerned though i just think you're right on the contract expires next year and we 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. was a 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 affect the consumer not but the bt heating it want consumers in europe. it is a difficult question. in any negotiations our objective is to make sure that they don't hurt anyone but if we're concerned about the earth consumers we consumers in countries who are we deliver gas to the consumers in transit countries and of course every time we do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen in your position there are no problems but of course there are exceptions squishing 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.

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used to be a place of exile since the seventeenth century. where businesses take advantage of the wild growing products. where rich economic life gives birth to the innovative idea come to the top screech crusher close up on our. welcome back to spotlight i am al green of and i just want to remind you that my guest here in the studio today. the spokesman for russian gas who is the gas giant here in this country this one could be on the mystical prion of one of the journalists favorite topics to discuss with a guest promised at the u.n.

is south stream is the majority's opinion that south stream is the bucco pipelines rival. gazprom has recently started work on the project and is currently negotiating with the friendship. and the german. are you negotiating with any new partners in this project gazprom ready to reduce its share for the sake of new partners. but. i would say we have activated our word since we have always been actively working on the project but the fact that as you say people talk a lot about sauce three now. because among other reasons. there is nothing to say bulk nordstrom to ship the nature of 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. for some reason but i actually enjoy lists

. with journalists completely forgot about it when everything is fine and the media to forget about it so what's wrong with the south koreans since all of them out there. in south through rivalry we have many times that there is no reason for such a rivalry. south stream is a two. delivering our gas to our rick consumers national can other words. transit they versification into and the two for it delivery it's diversification. they do or is in a pipeline he's and was created as a two for source they will receive 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. twenty fifteen the first gas delivery will be performed at forgot or right now we are at this teacher when they visit

billet the study for the c part of the project is rating which us so next year we expect it considering all g c a possibility as in all the options we have any know that recently or a mania became interested in this project to you but i was not part of this project prior to that idea when you say interested do you mean that you have started negotiations already yes a direct contact it's 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 past soonest possible and in the first part of the next year we are to make the final decision on this pipeline through. which any final names self the intermediate geographic places off the roof. of the great and clarifying 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 don't know because regarding the lamport in every country we create a joint venture and sharing it is a fifty fifty plus one share so always lean you asked about this. meets an issue to be negotiated with our telling in french partners and any new. partners if they merge. you don't comment much on the pipeline however the majority of russian commentators and the next person analysts are more politicized than usual because you are more about 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 etc 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 steal a bit from your profits. should i repeat once again it's a two for resource there versification we're going we're building soft stream to increase or reliability omar deliveries in reduced transit to risks the other 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 project without me. but i think that for example the fact that in them because financing. was claimed to be media so lead by state banks shows what the ratio between economic and non economic interests is economic. when you can i mean in this project.

now about poland we often hear that. council of ministers recently gave consent to signing a new gas agreement with russia. to it but if i understood it correctly the owner of the part of the pipe. technical function. will be the real. maintaining this part of the pipeline. in your opinion.

is not true. and the situation is as follows you're probably remember the mall europe gas pipeline in the polish part of it was built onto the program all for 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 build directly to turkey just up all the right now the polish port of the amal euro but pipeline belongs to the joint venture a europe whole gas and trying to ensure of gas problem in the polish national gas company put it when you put into 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 a reasonable terrorists for gas transit through polish territory we think that the agreements which we have signed but i want to. enable us to do so it wasn't to leave it with the intergovernmental agreement proving the entire package cream and so we hope that it will be signed soon and poland itself is interested more than anybody in it as well in the region as a community based gas deficit if it's your in the winter which is here and pleasant . it's a list system of agreements with poland is it the take up

a system of only take or pay that with the leader yes of course i would. gazprom negotiating abolishment told the principal with other clients about me they could be known by no 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. and for. you 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'll have a secure source of energy. to the head of gas alexei miller says 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 would is it the reason for europe to look. if it's a core pig remain and then they have nothing to worry about now as for the domestic market its volume is twice as much as so rock supports and considering their decision to shift to equally profitable fish to mass ticket prices by twenty fourteen will have to markets like europe within our countries and we won't have to build expensive pipelines. to provide a gas market which will be asked profitable because the european market. you know 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 they who lose their competitive advantage

based on the fact that russia. he's reaching natural gas but i share that i'm not and you did it. russia is a region guess where does this paradox come from as i know in russia there is still no guest supply and that even in moscow region there are many villages without a guest supply is their name to provide a guest supplied to every settlement in russia on the right to shoes here your first let you say something about cheap gas considering that it's several times cheaper than any other standard she source warlord cool or anything else due to the fact that it's more convenient to use gas in case we had to lower gas to all consumers it would have caused us going in there that's of profit and would have exhausted gas resources that's the first thing and now just as the price is screwed we are sure that demand will be reasonable and that we will be able to do as much

historic klein says they will need and i mean certainly in the country is huge and from the economic viewpoint it's not always profitable to see install a pipe to a separate village but there are other options we could provide autonomy supply with. a chain or if you think they're all options but of course there won't be one hundred percent against supply network it's not profitable. i would have to think. thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today said again 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 drop the live spotlight will be back with more first and comment on what's going on in that russia until then stay on and take.