KIEV, Oct. 30 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks that Ukraine is increasingly unable to pay for natural gas imports are “groundless” and “unfriendly,” President Viktor Yushchenko’s top energy envoy said Friday.
Bohdan Sokolovskiy reacted to the remarks in which Putin, at a meeting with his party United Russia, had accused Yushchenko of blocking the release of money from the central bank to the government to pay for gas imports.
“This is an unprecedented case when the head of the government of a neighboring country has been intervening into the budgetary policy of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers and Naftogaz Ukrayiny,” Sokolovskiy said in a statement. “The Ukrainian party does not need external consultants on how to use the money.”
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