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EC President Barroso calls Ukraine gas transit system a 'vital energy artery'

At the Brussels Conference today on Modernisation of Ukraine's Gas Transit System, EC President Jose Manuel Barroso addressed an audience including Ukrainian President Yuschenko and Prime Minister Timoshenko.

The President asserted 'the imperative of ensuring the secure and reliable flow of energy across our common European continent that is so important to our economic and social well-being.

'The gas transit system across Ukraine is one of those vital energy arteries that keeps the European body functioning. It has been essential for many years and it will remain of strategic importance for the EU, Ukraine and Russia for decades to come.

'It is in the common interest of everyone here today therefore that this network functions efficiently, reliably and transparently into the future. '

 

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Source of information	EU RAPID
Release date	23/03/2009
Contributor	David Conway
Geographical coverage	Ukraine, EU
Keywords	gas transit