“We will consider this date agreed, we are ready to hold consultations,” Novak quotes RIA Novosti.

Earlier, the EC announced that the trilateral meeting will be held on September 19.

Leading analyst of the National Energy Security Fund, lecturer at the Financial University under the Government of Russia Igor Yushkov, in an interview with FBA Economics Today, said that the main issue for the upcoming tripartite gas talks will be transit in 2020. He did not rule out the possibility of concluding a winter package that had been used before.