Voice of Russia: Kiev in talks with Europe on new Ukrainian gas consortium
Ukraine has forwarded proposals to European gas companies to set up a natural gas transportation consortium to help modernize and maintain the Ukrainian gas system, Yuriy Prodan, the parliament-appointed minister of Energy and Coal Industry, said on Wednesday.
"Ukraine is already in talks concerning the mooted consortium. We forwarded relevant proposals to European gas companies," Prodan told journalists. Moscow was ruled out of the talks since Russia had never sent proposals concerning the network's future development, he said.
Parliament-appointed prime minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk told a news conference on Tuesday that Kiev was set "to discuss joint maintenance and modernization of Ukraine's gas transportation system" with American and European investors.