No gas accords to be signed at interstate commission's Yalta meeting - Ushakov
MOSCOW. July 11 (Interfax) - No gas agreements are likely to be signed after a meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian interstate commission to be held in Yalta on July 12 under the chairmanship of Russian and Ukrainian presidents Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yanukovych, said Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov.
"Gas will be discussed at the talks, naturally, but documents have not been drawn up yet. I don't think they will have been negotiated in the remaining hours," Ushakov told the media on Wednesday.
He said also that despite certain disagreements in approaches to individual aspects of the gas theme, such as prices and the amount to be bought by Ukraine, the parties continue systematic work to draft agreements that would elevate cooperation in this area to a higher level.
Putin and Yanukovych will discuss prospects of resolving this strategic problem soon, first of all in the context of the work on a new full-scale agreement to broaden cooperation in the gas sector, and of the implementation of the agreements between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy to jointly develop the Pallas field in the Black Sea shelf, Ushakov said.