The Cabinet is working to ensure that South Stream is not implemented

Canada is currently engaged in "intense discussions" with Russia on a pipeline project South Stream, "which" is harmful to our country "This is the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko said today in Donetsk at the press conference, UNIAN . The minister noted that South Stream gas pipeline "- a political project of our Russian partners, who want to create an excess transit capacity that they have done first on oil, now the gas." In this case, Boyko said: "We are clearly unprofitable. ... The position of our president's tough enough, I did ... was present at the way he expressed it in communion with the Russian leadership, that is a project that contradicts our national interests. Simply put, it takes away from our gas pipes. " The Minister noted that it "is why we and the European Union, and with local partners working in the direction that this project was not implemented because it is bad for us." "South Stream" - a system of gas pipelines, which will connect Russia and the countries of South and Central Europe. The main gas pipeline will run under the Black Sea from Novorossiysk (Russia) to Varna (Bulgaria). It is assumed that the "South Stream" will bifurcate: one line will pass through Greece to southern Italy, the second - through Serbia and Hungary to Austria. Recall, Viktor Yanukovych said that Russia considers unpromising build the South Stream pipeline, which includes Russian gas transit to Europe bypassing Ukraine, in case the agreement of Russia and the European Union to upgrade the GTS in March, the German company BASF said that enters the gas pipeline project "South Stream»