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Russia says receives EU request for gas talks on Friday - report

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01-07-2014 | 07:26

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The European Union's Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger wants to hold gas talks over the telephone with Russia on Friday, Energy Minister Alexander Novak was quoted on Tuesday as saying.

"We will hold the telephone conversation, agree a meeting, discuss issues related to the South Stream pipeline and the pumping of gas to underground storage," Interfax news agency quoted Novak as saying in the Russian southern city of Vladikavkaz.

Novak added Russia was not going to change its offer in a gas price dispute with Ukraine that is threatening to disrupt supplies to the EU.

Also on Tuesday, Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil firm, said it would take gas producer Gazprom to court if it refused to offer the state-controlled company access to a gas pipeline due to be built to China.

Rosneft and Novatek, Russia's largest private gas producer, last year broke Gazprom's monopoly on shipping gas abroad, getting permission to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) but not getting access to pipelines.

Since then Rosneft has pushed for access to the 'Power of Siberia' pipeline, which has yet to be built but will link east Siberian gas production with China, as part of a deal clinched by Gazprom to supply China with gas over 30 years.

On Tuesday Rosneft said Gazprom as "an infrastructure monopoly" was obliged to give access to its pipelines to independent gas producers so gas Rosneft planned to produce in eastern Siberia could give "light and heat" to the regions.

"We will ensure that our citizens' right to have a life they deserve will be protected through talks ... and using court procedures if needed," it said in a statement.

A spokesman for Gazprom declined to give any immediate comment.

REUTERS

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