On the evening of March 5, the Russian Natural Gas Industry Corporation announced that Russia and Uzbekistan have negotiated a telephone to find a solution to the problem of debt repayment. The two parties decided that Russia will immediately lift the restrictions on the supply of natural gas to Uzbekistan, and Uzbekistan will cancel restrictions on Russia's supply of gas to Europe through Ukraine.
On March 4, Kuiprianov, a spokesperson for Russia’s Natural Gas Industry Corporation, announced that due to the Ukrainian side's refusal to resume talks with the Russian side on the debt issue and that it had no intention of taking practical measures, the Russian side will be at Moscow’s time on March 4th. Since then, the supply of natural gas has been reduced again. The previous day, the company had already reduced the supply of natural gas to Ukraine by 25%.
Although the Russian side has repeatedly claimed that Russia’s move will not affect the supply of gas to European users, it still aroused serious concern from the European Union. The EU calls on Russia and Ukraine to resolve the natural gas dispute as soon as possible and hopes that Russia’s transit of Ukraine’s natural gas exports to the EU will not be affected.
As we all know, Russia and Ukraine had natural gas battles in January 2006. At that time, the Russian Gas Corporation interrupted the supply of natural gas to Ukraine, resulting in a shortage of natural gas throughout Europe. Ukraine imports 71% of its natural gas from Russia, and 80% of the natural gas that Russia's natural gas industry exports to Europe needs to be transported through Ukrainian pipelines.
Ukrainian gas company immediately also made a tough stance, saying that if Russia further reduce the supply of natural gas to Ukraine, Ukraine will limit the supply of natural gas to Ukraine via Ukraine to Europe.
In the face of the Ukrainian "calls," Russia's natural gas industry is not satisfied. A spokesperson for the company said: "If Uzbekistan does not return to the negotiating table, Russia will not rule out further reductions in natural gas supply."
On 4 March, the Ukrainian President and the newly elected President Medvedev made an emergency call to seek a proper solution to the natural gas dispute. Medvedev urged Uzbekistan to meet the agreement reached by the two countries’ heads of state on February 12. Uzbekistan will unconditionally repay the arrears as soon as possible.
On February 12, Ukrainian President Yushchenko made an agreement with President Putin on the gas dispute between the two countries during his visit to Russia. Yushchenko promised to start paying back the arrears on February 14th and Russia will continue to supply Ukrainian supplies. gas. Due to the domestic political struggle in Uzbekistan, the Uzbek government headed by Tymoshenko refused to implement the agreement reached by the Ukrainian and Russian heads of state and even refused to continue negotiations with Russia.
On March 5, Ukrainian President Yushchenko sent an urgent letter to Tymoshenko and in a very harsh tone, he instructed the government to instruct Ukrainian Oil and Natural Gas Company to immediately implement the agreement signed by Uruguay leaders on February 12 and negotiate with the Russian side.
Most of the natural gas imported by Ukraine is produced in the Central Asian countries, and Russia’s supply of Ukrainian natural gas is only a supplement to the Central Asian countries’ supply of gas to Ukraine. As a result of the severe cold, the supply of natural gas to Uzbekistan by Central Asian countries, especially Turkmenistan, drastically decreased. At the request of Ukraine, Russia began supplying emergency natural gas to Ukrainians on January 1 of this year to make up for the supply and demand gap. Up to now, the Russian natural gas supply to Ukraine has reached 1.9 billion cubic meters, worth 600 million U.S. dollars, but the Ukrainian side has not yet paid off the arrears.
Of Russian natural gas exported to Europe, 80% is to be transported through pipelines in Ukraine. Uzbekistan used this as a bargaining chip to bargain against Russia. Russia has been seeking to acquire Ukraine’s energy transmission pipeline, but it has been severely rejected by Ukraine. To this end, the Ukrainian parliament passed a bill last year that specifically prohibited the privatization of state-owned gas pipelines.

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