Ukraine’s President seeks energy ties with EU

At the tenth summit “Ukraine-EU” in Helsinki Victor Yushchenko has said Ukraine appreciates Europe’s assistance in the construction of the Odesa-Brody-Plock oil pipeline and hopes to start building its Brody-Plock section soon, president’s press office reported.

Mr. Yushchenko said Ukraine wanted to create a pan-European energy system to ensure transparency and introduce common rules for all its participants. He said the energy sector was “a strategic priority of development” for our country, as well as for other sovereign states. He admitted that energy issues often became “weapons of political blackmail and pressure, posing a serious threat to Europe’s energy security.”
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