Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko expressed his country's
readiness to supply electricity to Lithuania via Belarus during talks
in Vilnius, Ukrinform reported. He participated in a meeting between Ukrainian, Lithuanian
and Belarusian foreign ministers and spoke at a trilateral meeting of
energy experts.
Ohryzko said that the implementation of this project had already
been supported by the presidents of three states and was foreseen in a
roadmap for the development of Ukrainian-Lithuanian partnership for
2009-2010, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's press service reported. For
this purpose, Vilnius hosted talks between the experts of three
countries on the technical and technological aspects of implementing
"this mutually beneficial, trilateral project."
The participants in the talks also discussed trilateral cooperation
on the realization of infrastructure projects in the energy and
transport sectors, as well as the issues of creating the Baltic-Black
Sea economic space.
Ohryzko also stressed the importance of realizing the project of
transporting Caspian oil, using the Odesa-Brody-Plock-Gdansk pipeline,
to Europe, including Lithuania.
The ministers also stressed the need to improve trilateral
interaction on the functioning of the combined transport train Viking.
The implementation of this project will help improve the transport
system of the Baltic-Black Sea economic space and extend the geography
of cargo transportation, the ministry said.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas, in turn, said that
after the negotiations, experts could draft an agreement on the transit
of Ukrainian electricity to Lithuania via Belarus by May 2009.
