THE current agreement on the transit of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine expires at the end of 2024, and Kyiv has repeatedly stated that it does not plan to extend it.
Slovakia is conducting intensive talks on natural gas supplies in 2025 and hopes that transit through Ukraine will continue, Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
“We are conducting extremely intensive international negotiations on gas supplies in 2025. These decisions have a huge number of obstacles, because there are political statements from the Ukrainian side, pressure to stop supplies from the east to the west, proposals for gas supplies, which are however significantly more expensive, including transit duties, which we reject, we do not see any reason for geopolitical reasons to pay more for gas than required,” Fico said in a statement for the press following a government meeting on Friday. He said that in the coming days, talks will be held at different levels and in different countries.
“I am convinced that even if there were a short-term interruption of gas supplies from the east, we are sufficiently supplied, we will find a joint solution for several countries of the European Union and maintain gas transit through the territory of Slovakia and Ukraine,” the prime minister said.
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