Agreement between Moscow and Kiev and Brussels on the resumption of Russian gas exports to Ukraine

Russia, Ukraine and the EU signed in Brussels on Thursday evening, an agreement ensures the resumption of Russian gas exports to Ukraine until March / March 2015. French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the EU "will result in a full role" to ensure the application of the gas agreement reached Thursday evening between Moscow and Kiev brokered by Brussels and ensure the resumption of Russian gas exports to Ukraine until March / March 2015. In a statement, the French presidency said Hollande and Merkel said they discussed in the evening with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Petro Poroshenko, noting that the four leaders "welcomed the end of the negotiations on Russian gas exports to Ukraine, which has, thanks to the mediation of the European Union." He added in his statement to the Elysee, "the president and the German chancellor stressed that the European Union will lead a full role in conjunction with its partners (the United States and the Group of Seven and International Monetary Fund) to facilitate the implementation of the agreement that has been reached." He stressed Hollande and Merkel on the other hand "the importance of full implementation of the protocol Minsk website on 5 September / September 2014 with a view to reaching a lasting political solution to the current crisis in the east of Ukraine," and expressed the hope "the resumption of the national dialogue between the Ukrainian authorities and the separatists." Russia, Ukraine and the EU signed in Brussels on Thursday evening, an agreement ensures the resumption of Russian gas exports to Ukraine, and, consequently, to Europe, until March / March 2015. The agreement was reached at the end of two days of intense negotiations was signed by Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and Ukrainian Yuri Prodan, the European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Aoatengr. The agreement entailed the "extension" signed initialed head of the Russian gas group "Gazprom" Alexei Miller and the head of the Ukrainian gas group "Naftogaz" Andre Copoliv. The agreement was signed by Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and Ukrainian Yuri Prodan, the European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Aoatengr. The agreement entailed the "extension" signed initialed head of the Russian gas group "Gazprom" Alexei Miller and the head of the Ukrainian gas group "Naftogaz" Andre Copoliv. He welcomed the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso at a press conference to reach this agreement, which came the fruit's "politics of responsibility and the spirit of cooperation and economic logic and common sense." "It's an important step for the energy security," stressing that there was no "no reason because people in Europe feel the cold this winter." Barroso expressed about the "hope that this agreement enhances the trust between Ukraine and Russia," stressing that "the priority now likes to be the application of the" Minsk agreements on a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine separatist. For his part, the European Energy Commissioner said that this agreement deals with a total value of $ 4.6 billion in payments, including payment of late payments owed on the price Ukraine previous purchases of Russian gas and imports from this gas until March / March, pointing out that the price of these purchases select Bakmah 385 dollars per thousand cubic meters of gas, and stressing that Kiev "is capable of such payments."