SPOTLIGHT NO LONGER ON ISSUE OF ALTERNATIVE GAS SUPPLY TO UKRAINE

Yerevan, August 28. ArmInfo. "Evidently, the spotlight is no longer on
the issue of alternative gas supply to the Ukraine. Neither it is in
the periphery of the country’s foreign policy," Ukrainian Ambassador
to Armenia Alexander Bozhko told ArmInfo in the course of a reception
on the occasion of Independence Day of the Ukraine.

Ambassador Bozhko believes all the leaders of the Ukraine, starting
from Kuchma, put this issue on the agenda of their foreign policy
and seriously thought of future transit supply of power resources
to the country. "It is natural that this problem is in full view of
all the parties interested, including of Russia. It is natural as
the world develops and new sales markets originate," the Ambassador
said. In the meanwhile, he refused to make forecasts concerning the
circumstances that will help reactivate the project of Iranian gas
supply to Europe via Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine. "We are living
in the situation when gas tariffs are growing to the world level. I
think it normal. That is why all the countries that believe this
issue urgent must think and work over it," Ambassador Bozhko said.

Two schemes of gas supply to Europe from Iran are currently on agenda:
via the territories of Armenia (the constructed Iran-Armenia gas
pipeline), Georgia and Russia; through construction of a gas main
along the Black Sea bottom from Georgia to the Ukraine.