Difficult to organize reverse gas supplies through Slovakia excluding Gazprom, says energy minister

20:31, 01.10.2013 1 min read

It is difficult to organize reverse gas supplies from Europe to Ukraine without taking into account the position of Russia's Gazprom, Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Andriy Bondarenko considers.

"Like us [Ukraine], the Slovak operator has a contract with Gazprom. It is still difficult to talk about the implementation of the reverse direction in the case with Slovakia without taking into account [the position of] Gazprom, although it is one of the most promising," he said during the hotline on Tuesday.

As reported, Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Eduard Stavytsky many times named the terms of starting reverse gas supplies to Ukraine through Slovakia, but each time they were postponed.

At present Ukraine is performing reverse gas supplies through the territory of Poland and Hungary. It is also planned to open a Romanian supply route.