KIEV, May 24 - President Viktor Yanukovych, at a meeting with Alexei Miller, the CEO of Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, said the 2009 gas agreement with Russia was “not correct” and must be changed.
Yanukovych said he spoke with his Russian President Dmitry Medvedev before the meeting with Miller, and said this opens door for discussions over mutual cooperation o the issue.
The meeting comes as Ukraine and Russia have been holding talks to change the 10-year gas agreement signed in January 2009 amid concerns that gas prices, set by a specal formula, were unsustainable for the economy.
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