BERLIN, January 8 (RIA Novosti, Olga Semyonova) - Russian natural gas supplies to Germany are reliable, the chairman of Germany's largest gas company E.ON Ruhrgas said Sunday in an interview with a popular German magazine.
Burckhard Bergmann told Focus that Russia had been unfailingly supplying natural gas to Germany for more than 30 years.
He spoke against the attempts to extrapolate the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute to the German-Russian relations. He said both countries had long-term contracts clearly defining the price and the amount of natural gas supplies. Bergmann said there was no misunderstanding in bilateral gas relations, adding that Germany paid market prices for Russian natural gas.
The head of E.ON Ruhrgas also said the Russian-German project to build the North European Gas Pipeline along the bottom of the Baltic Sea was important to ensure direct gas deliveries to European consumers.
