MOSCOW, April 02. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom, the European Commission and Germany’s Foreign Ministry are interested in maintaining mutually beneficial relations established through several decades of effective cooperation, as follows from a statement made by Gazprom after a meeting of the company's CEO Alexei Miller with European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
“It has been noted that Gazprom is not only the biggest provider of gas to the European countries, which has proved its exceptional reliability in the course of more than 40 years of gas supplies, but it is also the sole supplier, investing billions in Europe’s gas supply infrastructure,” the statement says.