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spotlight is next here on r t his guest today is the ukrainian prime minister. while kings go mad their people suffer. how some take advantage of power that was given to them. she crudes a big dirty money. on r g. hello yellow walk into spotlight they enter the show. and for all we know wednesday my guest is mikolaj. ukraine is trying to beat off the price for

a russian gas he is considered the country's unfair and want at least to cleese the price for the transit of russian gas through the territory object pray but experts say that ukraine is not going to concede which makes bargaining pretty difficult for it is it appears the ukrainian prime minister in the car light was off. when russia and ukraine grappled over gas prize a couple years ago intended up in a crisis we should left europe freezing the then prime minister your original shango managed to strike a deal with russia the deal kiev now calls a ball and chain ukraine is the biggest russian natural gas important it doesn't want to pay more than germany also back yet and with the gas market price approaching three hundred dollars a thousand cubic meter it's logical teves looking for a discount. stores or

a pillow and thank you for running this interview for willow. first of all let me congratulate you on yet another round of talks with prime minister putin which as far as i can judge was a success has been generally are you pleased with how the process goes on and yes of course the generally the relations between russia and ukraine have been developing dynamically the fact alone that trade has grown by seventy percent is a record it is not with every country that tree grows at this rate looking at the biggest group it was considerable even before bracing entire segment so our industry and the fact that we have a. she would so significant a turning point he's primarily an inch occasion of the political will to stablish normal relations that the leadership will go through russia and ukraine have just as our if we know that very many in ukraine see the gas price calculation formula for ukraine as enslaving why did you raise this issue at the negotiations were

going to have of course so did we're not saying it's in slaving we say it's unfair . i mean the contract has been drawn up in such a manner that it fails to take into account ukraine's interests. in fact we had somewhat different data but for example of a gas price increased more than two fold while transit terrorists remain practical and changed. what kind of a qualities this the higher the price of gas pumps through or gas transporting system a is the more expansive its transit should be so we came up with a number of arguments and i'm pleased to note that mr putin has agreed to stablish a working group that will hear and consider all our arguments and i'm sure that the experts will be able to come to terms could of course just how much would you crane like to pay for gas today what some will make you happy as they say in english.

well let's reason this way we're not asking for any discounts as i said at that press conference recently. let's look for example at the price of poland germany in romania. let's take out the transit fee and see how much gas or cost. well let's take out the hard cold discount there is one hundred dollars for a thousand cubic meters and it will get the price let's compare the price which belarus base let's compare and analyze in this way you will arrive at a figure it will regard as fair or. right we know that mr putin is a strong negotiator but he is also man of compromises that. there are some shifts in your favor and ukraine should also make some concession that he promised

anything some concessions that you are ready to make to get the right. he could be concessions we said that there should be a fair approach to determining if the prize so for russian gas supplies. considering that we're of the biggest wire of that gas no other country would purchase as much as we do there's this of this means that we should enjoy wholesale discounts based on the amounts we want. more than that we not only buy gas but also story in our storage facilities and this requires a lot of work gas is accumulated in summer time and then is consumed in winter in this way uninterrupted deliveries to european countries are secured let me stress once again we didn't speak of concessions on either side we discussed a universal math that to calculate the gas price and we said both sides should be

happy with this formula but both sides should be happy with a contract you can't have a contract that only one party feels good about such a contract won't last. and when speaking of revising the gas agreements what you're talking about present believe that if admitted that quote in future it would be possible to use certain advanced forms of called her ration including cooperation of the gas sector unquote and that what form of collaborations in the gas sector with russia is ukraine ready for if you're ready to answer this question now you know what. these are the issues that there is current which is due to be created and will consider. because you know mr putin told me that with russia's relations with germany with russia allowed germany to develop certain gas fields in russia. and thus russia got some gas. on the other hand

germany allowed gasper on to take on. in managing as certain gas transporting systems. but they're doing so i think if germany and russia have this kind of cooperation. we can consider similar forms of confirmation which when ukraine in russia really with. out about uniting gazprom anough to guess. is there a progress in that. that is a crane interested. you know first the wall it must be mutually beneficial. we should find such mechanisms that would be obvious for us in terms of economic efficiency. unification into huge concern where enough to guard would have a say three point five percent does not seem beneficial for us at this point

but theoretically it cannot be ruled out can it work or no we have to find some other mechanisms that are right to present any college called the possible increase of the gas prize holding an increase of the world price is an extremely serious threat for ukraine economy indeed oil prices are growing and since gas prices are links to oil as gas companies say they should go as well i guess from c.e.o. aleksey miller said recently that gas prices on long term contracts may rise to five hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters in the fourth quarter is this price sustainable for the ukraine economy and will the ukrainian economy be able to accept such a price if it comes to that kurdish were of course it will there is no doubt about that but of course this will result in serious losses for our economy and primarily for our citizens. this is what's important. he wrote this problem is complex accent serious. first of all i'm convinced that there

should be no such a crisis because they would undermine the stability of our economy and consequently jeopardize our trade with the russian group there were problems. i clearly told prime minister putin and we were interested in a stable development over russia's economy without any crises we are interested because we are a major trading partner or so if your situation is bed ours will be either a whip so you should also know or think about it this way if our situation is bad you are just want to get either or we think you saints are connected we know that the global financial crisis of two thousand and eight two thousand and nine began from a sharp increase in office prices with those in october two thousand and eight the oil prices soared to two hundred forty nine hundred fifty dollars

a barrel and the economy collapsed that was affected russia among other nations russia may have gained something due to high prices but it had a twelve percent fall of g.d.p. from not mistaken so growing process for energy are a threat to the world economy. i know that ukraine is not particularly enthusiastic about the north stream and south stream project it's obvious that the role of cranes transit will fall when those projects are implemented so even if you succeed to get the prize for transit higher. how strong a blow will it be in for ukraine to lose this transit money. at this point the balance between the transit fees we get from gas prawns and the cost of the gas we buy he's already seven billion dollars with it's a huge amount. richelle there we're it's quite obvious that our transfer fees are

actually quite close and i have told from minister put in the budget in the school of our transit charity worker is several times just smaller than in europe with those who were on the other hand i realize of course that it's a sovereign right of russia so make this decision however the rule is i'm also aware of the fact that in the when those decisions were to me russia was forced to do so due to political instability in ukraine. and yet it's my deep conviction that gas transiting through ukraine is much much cheaper then through a nordstrom or south stream border we've a problem. you're welcome you thought e.u. commissioner for energy into urging just said recently that e.u. is more interested in the modernization of the ukrainian gas transporting system

than in the construction of the south stream pipeline is the e.u. ready to put its money where it's now if it isn't financed and modernization well some as a matter of fact modernization is not that expensive according to the asked and so are specialists it ranges from one point five billion euros to two billion years while the construction of south stream is about twenty billion euros which is obviously ten times more expensive. so it's quite understandable that the european commissioner says that for europe it is much better it's invest in today's modernization of the queenie and guess transporting system and have no problems afterwards we have to discuss this issue to prime minister putin said that it would not be bad to revive the idea of a consortium of which he had proposed back in two thousand and three in which was supported by german chancellor schroeder france and italy however it we still need

to consider what's the best way to revive this idea of. truth in other words will gazprom be allowed to take on this morning. that as far as i know gazprom is very keen on that. if it wants to lead it to court there is no problem whatsoever. with it up how will it work will there be a tender what. would you gas from along with the e.u. wants to take part in the modernization we would only welcome that says that of the ukrainian prime minister that the spotlight will be back off to take a short break so stay way or it.

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radio stations television stations a cable outlet but you told me that that sounds like democracy public opinion versus f.c.c. broadcast blues marching in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph minster at the university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into one ounce. gone all the main risk issues i'll stick to is that ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are verkin for the produces side and only five percent. read genuinely independent. there is not. a lot of science that says train genic fish is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there is a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if it transgenic fish escapes what

kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish population i don't know what this might do to us or our children or our children's children in our congress here in the united states legislatures throughout the world we vote all these different laws tax laws and corporate laws what can be more important than deciding on the feminine genetic future of life on earth. welcome back to spotlight our enough and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is nikolaj as out of the ukrainian prime minister of. good mr azhar a few have mentioned a group prime minister putin is creating at the same time as i hear will present in

a cause has also created a certain group to interact with the customs union russia and kazakhstan a three plus one formula what does this mean in practice and will ukraine be just an observer of the customs union. mr president the president of ukraine has created a working group run by the foreign minister with a primary purpose of studying deregulates re framework of developed would end it customers union. secondly it is to study our a potential for interacting with the customs union. so we have this working group and they have started working and soon they'll give us an answer as to what particular segments of the customs union we could kothari. is ukraine considering the option of joining the customs union as a fully fledged member or there were three let's wait for the results of the

working group first it will all depend on the working group of course with a little study of the issue and then you'll make a decision of course we need to consider it first study correctly that your crane will either take part it's not like there will be a three plus one format where ukraine will just be an observer well is there any middle ground. explain the situation at the press conference after the talks craniums sandwiched between the e.u. customs union in the west and the customs union of belarus russia and kazakhstan reader so we have to work out a format for our relations with you stu customs unions and that's what we're working on right now he sure my next question has to do with the media but he brushed off and complains primarily in the media that ukraine uses unlawful means to limit the acts as a russian used in the ukrainian market. in other words they say it's protectionism and they say is unlawful. did you discuss this question is there

a real conflict or is it just a theory by analysts and experts. to my great satisfaction when i ask specifically what group of commodities the us or russia have come. points about it so you need us and to give of course there raise this issue and so i asked mr clegg much difference to minister for economic development and what commodities create problems to which he replied it was matches and glass worth of it can imagine the amount of matches supplied to the ukrainian market from russia it's insignificant at the moment and i'm very glad that nothing else was mentioned as our trade overall is almost a visit to the billion us dollars question one more question ukraine may soon join the e.u. free trade zone if i am not mistaken and should this happen that russia would most likely have to take certain measures to protect its market. has this been discussed

this is also about taken into account each other's interests. wisc us that as well but consider this where are the prices higher in the e.u. or in ukraine. or russia to europe exports say it's expensive flour to us where is our florida is about five times cheaper than in europe i mean if it is just an example of course. but we all know where the e.u. prices are march absolutely for everything that's food consumer goods and so forth . are there in ukraine. what's the point for them to bring in gary good sense seldom in a country where prices are actually lower. so personally i don believe that there is a real danger that the e.u. will flood us with their cheap goods. were quick let's take vegetables for example

. the e.u. supplies were one born far as a percent or two percent of all the vegetables consumed in ukraine it's next to nothing for. the you know vegetables by the way you taken any measures like russia to get protected from the infection that. we have to tighten the fittest sanitary control at the border and we carry out the curial logical tests but we have introduced no one bar goes because the volumes over imported birgitta bills are very small for instance we get nothing from spain it's all so there is no need to introduce serious prohibitory measures you should look both my next question is rather political than economic i.m.f. representative in ukraine next alley as quoted by the ukrainian press has saying that in order to continue a copper issue of ukraine yes prices for residents and enterprises should be raised and the pension assumed the cuts. so pretty. easy all government already were to

resort to such a very unpopular steps to secure a new loan from a i.m.f. . the rules are simple well mr gallagher it was not quoted quite precisely i met him only yesterday and i had talks with i am. we have signed a memorandum. we value our copper ration with ya mouth is is just. it's a question of reforming the pension system because it's not a question of pension cuts we just can't reduce the pensions so our citizens but it's about a pension reform. our goal is to find more sources for the pension fund. so it's a program that we're implementing. and then the other point you mentioned as a budget deficit enough to us. and that facts bird say that the

deficit should be covered at the expense so are people in the city but we think there's enough to guide us good optimize its costs and we suggest a more flexible approach to raising the tariffs. we know that in increasing tariffs always means growing consumer prices as soon as the gas or energy prices are raised prices for bread and milk need transportation and so forth you follow suit and what does inflation mean if in fact it's a tax which is detrimental for the economy it's a hindrance for economic growth so we tell the i.m.f. that our policy is first and foremost to keep the budget deficit below it which is of paramount importance not the main european countries that actually can boast of a three percent deficit this is the main condition for our economy to be stable.

russia to once a crane to have a stable economic situation. to what extent do you depend on the i.m.f. loan i mean how much leverage do they have you say should you fail to negotiate a lower is it possible that it will be the better russian scenario i mean economically. or is the situation totally different. you know our situation is totally different from the first of all i would mention that budget deficit in ukraine is only three percent in other words this deficit is fully covered with the resources we have. there were at the same time it's true that ukraine's foreign debt exploited it or however it is fully within the state budget it's a little bit we have a monthly schedule of payments in we have never had any feel least on those statements of the preceding and there was a which was that we were so at this point ukraine has enough resources to take care

o. its foreign debt so there is no origin with a need for us to get the sloan from the i.m.f. there were a specialist since this money will go to the national bank to boost its reserves are you really this money won't be used for government spending were the whistle goes with it or not and if the economic situation both of globally and locally stays the way it is today we're actually quite optimistic in the years two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve we were that's at us and tell me this is taking into account the talks in moscow because much depends on them doesn't it of course expensive almost thank you thank you very much for being with us in just illinois today that's my guest of the show today was. the prime minister's ukraine spotlight will be back with more first comments on what's really like in and out

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