Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic – the President of the European Union – summarise their talks at a news conference
10 january 2009
Vladimir Putin
Joint news conference with Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic.
Participants:
"Everyone should be clear that there are two problems here. One concerns Russia's sales of gas to Ukraine, while the other concerns Russian gas transit to European users via Ukraine. European consumers should not be made hostage to Russian-Ukrainian economic relations."
