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EU calls crisis talks as gas flow stops

By Tony Barber in Prague, Charles Clover in Moscow and Roman Olearchyk in Kiev

Published: January 7 2009 08:35 | Last updated: January 8 2009 08:17

Alexei Miller, chief executive of Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s biggest gas company, and Oleh Dubyna, his counterpart at Ukraine’s Naftogaz, held talks late on Wednesday night ahead of the emergency meeting in Brussels on Thursday called by the European Union in a bid to end disruption to the EU’s supplies.

The two met in Moscow for their first face-to-face negotiations since the energy dispute erupted on January 1. A Naftogaz spokesperson told the FT an agreement had ”not yet” been reached.

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