Across the World: Russia/EU
China Daily | Updated: 2009-01-17 08:22
'Last chance' for gas
The European Union piled pressure on Russia and Ukraine on Friday to resolve a dispute cutting gas supplies to Europe in mid-winter and Germany said Russia must honour energy contracts.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who began a visit to Germany on Friday, is to meet Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Moscow on Saturday on the gas price dispute and the EU Commission said such meetings provided a "last chance".
(China Daily 01/17/2009 page11)
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