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Talks on Russian gas transit across Ukraine to be resumed in September

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published July 4, 2019 at 12:45 pm

European Commission Vice-President in charge of Energy Maros Sefcovic gives a press statement with German Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier (Unseen) in Berlin on April 16, 2018.Peter Altmaier and Maros Sefcovic meet on April 16, amid controversy over the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to bring Russian natural gas to Germany. / AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL

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The trilateral talks in the Ukraine-Russia-European Commission format on the transit of Russian gas across Ukraine in 2020 would be resumed in September 2019, Vice President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic has said.

He said in Strasbourg on July 4, speaking to deputies of the European Parliament of the new convocation after the EU Summit meeting that the trilateral talks by him will be resumed in September.