G8 ministers aim for secure global energy supplies

“We want Russia to produce more gas and consume less,” EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, who will take part in discussions, told Moscow Echo radio in an interview late Wednesday.

“We have a choice: we can play a risky game of catch-up in the coming decades or we can engage the world with a new, safer and more secure approach to nuclear energy,” US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Wednesday ahead of the meeting.