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Ukraine president again blasts PM on gas row
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko issued a new denunciation of his prime minister on Friday over her stand on gas trade with Russia ahead of new talks to resolve long-running price and supply disputes.
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Ukraine and Russia clinched an agreement this week to pay off Ukrainian arrears for gas and resume talks on a 2008 supply agreement but only after Russian gas monopoly Gazprom halved flows to its southern neighbour. The president is unhappy at Premier Yulia Tymoshenko's call to eliminate immediately all joint venture intermediaries which ship gas in from Russia and distribute to Ukrainian consumers. A day after the gas standoff was resolved, Tymoshenko again insisted in a letter to the president that contracts could only be concluded directly between Gazprom and state firm Naftagaz.
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Benzer Haberler 
International
