Russia and the European Union signed the document on January 10. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said after talks with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek early on Sunday that the Ukrainian side had also signed it.
"Gazprom has not received even a fax copy of the document signed during the night in Kiev. We proceed from the fact that the document must be signed precisely in the form it was signed by the Russian side and initialed by the Czech Republic," the energy giant said in a statement.
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller assured European Commission officials and representatives of European companies consuming Russian gas on Saturday that the Russian gas monopoly had made every arrangement for an international monitoring commission to start working as soon as possible.
Russia and Ukraine failed to agree on New Year's Eve on how to settle Kiev's gas debts or on a contract for 2009 deliveries. As a result, gas supplies from Russia to European consumers via Ukraine were first reduced and then halted on January 7.
Russia had earlier pledged to resume gas supplies as soon international monitoring was ensured.
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country took over the European Union's rotating presidency on January 1, said after the talks Tymoshenko that "nothing prevents Russia now from resuming gas supplies."
The international monitoring commission will include experts from the European Commission, the Russian and Ukrainian energy ministries, Gazprom and Naftogaz officials, as well as European gas utilities, including France's GDF Suez S.A. and Societe Generale de Surveillance S.A., Germany's E.ON Ruhrgas AG and Wingas GmbH, Czech RWE Transgas a.s., Slovakia's SPP a.s, Austria's EconGas GmbH, Italy's ENI SpA, Hungary's FGSZ Ltd., Bulgaria's EAO Sofiagaz, Public Gas Corporation of Greece, Moldova's JSC Moldovagas, and Norway's Statoil Hydro.
Both Ukraine and Russia guarantee full and free access to all the necessary facilities listed in the document, and access to data confirming the flow of Russian gas through Ukraine to European customers.
