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Ukraine PM pledges to fulfil gas transit deal

Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:55pm EST

YALTA, Ukraine, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday told Russia's Vladimir Putin that Ukraine would scrupulously fulfil its obligations on the transit of Russian natural gas to Europe.

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In comments to Putin and a Russian delegation, Tymoshenko said: "We will very carefully and distinctly carry out our part in the transit of the gas."

She was referring to a gas agreement brokered by Putin and herself last January which ended a pricing conflict that had halted supplies of Russian natural gas across Ukraine to Europe for two weeks.

(Writing by Richard Balmforth)

Energy


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