Ukraine intends to create the EU group in order to stop Nord Stream 2
Moscow. June 18. INTERFAX.RU. Ukrainian authorities plan to create in the European Union group, whose task will be to stop the construction of a gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine “Nord stream — 2” (Nord Stream 2), and are negotiating with Germany to establish an international consortium to manage the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS).
“Nord stream-2” is completely politicized project, which is directed against Ukraine, which has no economic component, which is trying to take away from Ukraine’s budget, which equals nearly $3 billion However, I am convinced that the joint, combined efforts we will be able to stop him. (.. .) That is why we are now creating a group in the European Union, which should stop the “Nord stream — 2″. That is why we are negotiating with Germany. Invite them to create an international consortium to manage the state gas transportation system of Ukraine”, — wrote Poroshenko in his column on Medium.
The President of Ukraine stressed that the condition for Germany’s participation in the international consortium to manage the Ukrainian gas transport system “is to stop the “Nord stream-2”.
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The Ukrainian head of state noted that it is not going to reveal all the tools that the Ukrainian side uses in order to stop the construction of the “Nord stream — 2”. “But I also want to stress that for us it is very important. And I hope that the construction will stop,” — said the President.
Poroshenko said the scale of the threat of loss of Ukraine’s $3 billion from the commissioning of the “Nord stream — 2”: “this is the amount which is now spent on defense of Ukraine”. “You understand why he built? Not for economic factors to diversify. And in order to leave Ukraine without money to Finance our defense,” — says the head of state.
In his opinion, the second factor that is necessary to take into consideration is the safety factor, which will be lost in case of obtaining by Russia of the opportunity to supply natural gas to Europe bypassing Ukraine.
The gas pipeline “Nord stream — 2” will be held on the Baltic sea, connecting suppliers in Russia with consumers in Europe, its length will be more than 1.2 thousand km capacity will be 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The project cost is estimated at nearly 10 billion euros. Consortium participants — Gazprom, Engie, OMV, Shell, BASF and Uniper.
“Nord stream — 2” has already received full sets of construction permits and operation of the planned gas pipeline to Germany, Finland and Sweden. There is a permission process in Denmark.