KIEV, Jan. 15 - Ukraine is awaiting a reaction from Slovakia to a draft agreement that allows imports of natural gas from Europe via its pipelines, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday.

“We signed the draft and sent it to Slovakia,” Stavytskiy told reporters without disclosing details of the draft.

Slovakia sent its own draft to Ukraine late November and was ready to sign it on December 4, 2013, but officials from UkrTransGaz, the state gas shipping company, did not show up.