EAEU countries enjoy preferential gas prices only due to membership - Medvedev
BISHKEK. March 7 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has reminded certain Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries attempting to block integration processes about preferential gas prices they are entitled to owing to their membership.
When speaking at a meeting of the EAEU heads of government in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Tuesday, Medvedev addressed the gas issue 'in no uncertain terms'.
If some countries attending the meeting had not been EAEU members, they would have had to purchase gas at European or similar prices, Medvedev said.
"It is around $200 per 1,000 cubic meters. That is all there is to it, and there is no need to prove anything," he said.
In this context, he called on the EAEU partners to "refrain from exercising themselves in calculations: everything would have been far more expensive."
This should be borne in mind when someone makes decisions "blocking or hampering our integration," Medvedev said.
"No one is holding anyone here against their will. All of us understand: we set up this association voluntarily," he said.