VILNIUS, Nov. 5 – European Union Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger said he is confident that Moscow, Kiev and Brussels will manage to reach an agreement and avoid new disruptions in gas supplies to the EU market.

"There is clearly a conflict, there are different positions between Russia and Gazprom in particular on one side and Ukraine and the EU on the other, but all the parties are intelligent enough to avoid needless conflicts", Oettinger said at a press conference in Vilnius on Monday.