Newly elected Ukranian president Poroshenko: "I’ll pay for gas, but I’m going to court over Crimea."

Newly elected Ukranian president Poroshenko: "I’ll pay for gas, but I’m going to court over Crimea."(RBTH).

A correspondent from the newspaper Kommersant got the opportunity to speak one-on-one with Petro Poroshenko. The conversation was muddled, but it was the first interview with the newly elected president of Ukraine

Will you pay for gas?
“For gas? Will we pay for gas? Of course we will, depending on the price.”

You insisted before on $268 per 1,000 cubic meters?
“I am not currently in the business.”

But you have a point of view.
“I think that the government of Ukraine isn’t obligated to do anything. We have business entities and we have agreements between business entities that are always changing; so whether $260, $460, or $550, it’s not a market price. I would like to pay the market price for gas. I don’t want to pay a political price.”

But right now the existing debt must at least be paid?

“Is there a debt for the seizure of our Chernomornaftogaz assets? Do you have to pay for those? You seized our Ukrainian wells, shouldn’t someone pay for that? The well yields gas. There are Ukrainian investments from the government budget in those wells. Who will pay? What do you think, shouldn’t someone pay? The wells are on the territory of the Kherson region. Paratroopers landed there.”Read the full interview here.