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KIEV, 1 Mar - RIA Novosti. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that if Gazprom does not pay Naftogaz compensation under the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration, its assets should be arrested.

With this request, he turned to the head of Naftogaz, Andrei Kobolev, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"It is urgent to assemble the meeting, and if Gazprom does not pay this money," Naftogaz should get hold of Gazprom's assets and implement these decisions, "Poroshenko said at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council.

According to him, the Russian company has a lot of assets that can be confiscated, in particular, the assets of Nord Stream-2.

"If Gazprom does not come to its senses and does not comply with the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration in accordance with civilized rules, we will use all legal instruments in accordance with the New York Convention on the implementation of arbitration awards," Poroshenko added.

Companies were tried in Stockholm arbitration because of the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine. In December last year, the court ordered Naftogaz to pay Gazprom $ 2 billion for the fuel already supplied. At the same time, he reduced the annual volume of purchases to five billion cubic meters, but retained the "take or pay" condition for 80% of this amount.

The new decision, in the dispute over the contract for gas transit, arbitrated in favor of Naftogaz, partially satisfying his lawsuit and obliging the Russian company to pay compensation of $ 4.673 billion. Taking into account the previous verdict, the amount was 2.56 billion dollars. Gazprom said disagreement with this decision.

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