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Moscow summit may result in gas transit deal - Ukrainian embassy

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The issue of Russian gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine could be settled on Saturday at the international summit in Moscow, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Embassy said.
MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti) - The issue of Russian gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine could be settled on Saturday at the international summit in Moscow, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Embassy said.

"The question of transit could literally be solved today," Oleh Voloshin told journalists on the sidelines of the conference, warning that the fate of relations between Russia and Ukraine hinged on an agreement for supplies of Russian gas to Ukrainian consumers.

"Stable cooperation between Russia and Ukraine in the gas sphere is impossible without a decision on the question of gas deliveries to Ukraine," he said, adding that this did not mean that if Ukraine "did not receive gas from Russia it would block gas transit."

Russia suspended supplies to Ukraine on January 1 after the former Soviet neighbors failed to agree on debt and prices for 2009. The halt in shipments to the EU came a week later, with Gazprom accusing Kiev of stealing gas intended for EU consumers. Ukraine has denied the accusation.

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