The possible application by Ukraine to the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce is aimed at achieving a compromise rather than at revoking gas agreements with Russia for 2009, according to Volodymyr Fesenko, the head of the Penta Center of Applied Political Studies.
"My assumption is the following: Both the discussion of the arbitral tribunal (the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce) and even [a possible] application to the tribunal are most likely aimed at achieving an amicable agreement – a compromise, rather than at revoking those accords," he said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine in Kyiv on Wednesday.
He said "a gas war" between Ukraine and Russia could be triggered only if the gas agreements concluded in 2009 with Russia are broken unilaterally.
Fesenko said the Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental relations should see the lowering of "the level of emotions and a switch to a calm, business-like discussion" of gas issues.
The expert predicts that the importance of the Russian subject in Ukraine will be growing next year in the context of the future parliamentary elections.
