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"In connection with the Ukrainian-Russian conflict involving gas supplies I would like, as an MEP representing the citizens of the Slovak Republic, to draw the European Union’s attention to the fact that this conflict of interests affects not only the two parties that are blaming one another for the mess, but also a third party whose citizens are becoming the victims, as there is still no prospect of Russian gas being delivered through Ukraine.
Slovakia has been without gas for eight days and, with the current emergency restrictions on industry and companies operating under a crisis regime, we can maintain supplies for only eleven days. Slovakia’s gas is again stuck somewhere between the two warring parties. To put it briefly, two parties – two truths, no gas.
Let me inform you that today, at 11.45, Ukrainian Prime Minister Timoshenko rejected Slovakia’s request to renew natural gas deliveries, explaining that: 'Ukraine does not have enough gas, we do not have our own reserves and neither will you'. I would also like to emphasise that as a result of our dependence on Russian gas and the impossibility of reopening the V1 nuclear power plant at Jaslovské Bohunice, the energy security of the Slovak Republic is increasingly under threat.
Commissioner, I thank you for your proposals and efforts to find a solution. I do know of one measure you can take – suspend the contributions to Ukraine as one of the irresponsible parties."@en1
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