France hopes Russia, Ukraine will honor gas delivery contracts

PARIS, January 1 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Nizamutdinov) – The French authorities hope that despite the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine over natural gas deliveries, the countries will fulfill their delivery and transit obligations to European consumers, a source in the French Industry Ministry said Sunday.

RIA Novosti // Jan. 01, 2006 - 14:17 GMT