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"Mr President, my group notes with satisfaction that an agreement has been made that guarantees traffic connections with Kaliningrad after Lithuania and Poland join the Union. We in the EU must focus special attention on basic repairs of railway tracks in Lithuania. For that purpose we have to provide adequate financial support.
It is believed in the European Union that the need for energy grows at a rate of 1% a year. The intention is to meet the extra demand by increasing the use of natural gas. Russia is an important partner for the EU because the reserves of gas in the North Sea and North Africa will run out in twenty years or so. The EU’s demand for gas has to be met with exports from the east.
Cooperation on the issue of energy is not progressing satisfactorily. The best form of cooperation would be if pipelines were built linking Russia and the EU. If the pipelines go through Poland, Belarus and Ukraine there will be needless waste.
Early this week Gazprom announced, as Mr Paasilinna stated, that it was constructing, on its own, a gas pipeline from the Shtokmanovsk deposit in the Barents Sea to Central Europe. That is good news, as in that way the EU countries’ increased demand for the use of energy is satisfied. It is bad news if looked at from the point of view of cooperation. The EU is not now a party to the project and it will pay in the future.
Adherence to market conditions in the EU will not solve the problems of the energy market. Liberalisation of the market makes it impossible in practice to finance new investment by means of long-term supply contracts. If those who need gas shared in the costs of its delivery onto the market that would improve reliability of supply and over a time span of twenty years that is what will be the most important thing.
With Russia we have to speak about factors that unite us. One issue that separates us is the civil war in Chechnya. We all hope for a peaceful solution to the war. At the same time we note that at the summit attended by leaders of the EU and Russia no demands were made by the EU regarding Chechnya’s independence as a state. The region is therefore regarded as a part of the Russian Federation. Human rights cannot be trampled on in Russia using terrorism as an excuse, nor in the United States of America either."@en1
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