Putin calls Ukraine gas plan "unprofessional" - (Reuters: Putin)
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin threatened to review ties with the European Union over gas supplies should Russian interests be ignored and called a plan presented by Kiev on Monday "ill-considered and unethical."
Ukraine presented an investment colloquium with a "master plan" to spend billions of euros boosting the capacity of its Soviet-era gas pipelines that carry Russian gas to Europe.
"It seems to me the document about which we are talking is, at a minimum, ill-considered and unbefitting because to discuss such issues without the basic supplier is simply not serious," Putin said in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
"If the interests of Russia are ignored then we will have to start re-examining the principles of relations with our partners," he said.
"There's no point in deciding the problem of increasing supplies of our gas without us."
(Reporting by Denis Dyomkin, writing by Robin Paxton, editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
Ukraine presented an investment colloquium with a "master plan" to spend billions of euros boosting the capacity of its Soviet-era gas pipelines that carry Russian gas to Europe.
"It seems to me the document about which we are talking is, at a minimum, ill-considered and unbefitting because to discuss such issues without the basic supplier is simply not serious," Putin said in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
"If the interests of Russia are ignored then we will have to start re-examining the principles of relations with our partners," he said.
"There's no point in deciding the problem of increasing supplies of our gas without us."
(Reporting by Denis Dyomkin, writing by Robin Paxton, editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
