RIA Novosti: Ukraine’s Tymoshenko Calls for European Energy Diversification

European countries need real energy diversification, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on the sidelines of the PACE's fall session in Strasbourg Monday.

"Time has come to deeply rethink the strategy and policies of real energy diversification. I believe that European countries together with Ukraine have means to limit monopoly of Gazprom to the energy supply to Europe," Tymoshenko said.

"Unfortunately, we are seeing not good things from Moscow," Yulia Tymoshenko said, answering RIA Novosti's question whether the gas war seen in 2009 might repeat this year.

The statement came amid fears of potential troubles with gas transit via Ukraine, which was switched by Russia's energy giant Gazprom to a prepayment system over Kiev's gas debt estimated to be in excess of $5 billion.
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