inSerbia: South Stream Construction Should Continue Despite EU Objections

Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov has said that Serbia should adhere to the bilateral agreement on South Stream with Russia, despite objections that are coming from the EU, and underscored that a halt to works on that gas pipeline is out of the question.

Serbia should stick to the intergovernmental agreement, Chizhov told Tanjug after a discussion on the EU-Russia relations held at the European Policy Center in Brussels on Monday.

During the discussion, Chizhov mentioned the dispute over South Stream as one of the points at which the interests of Moscow and Brussels clashed after the European Commission concluded that the agreements Russia had signed with six EU member states are not in line with EU regulations.

The Russian ambassador said that Moscow’s position is that EU regulations, formulated in the so-called Third Energy Package, cannot be the single criteria for determining the regularity of the gas pipeline.  MORE