KYIV, Dec 18 - The Ukrainian delegation is ready in January to take part in the next round of tripartite gas talks with the EU and Russia at the political level, initiated by Vice President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic, the director general of the strategic planning and European integration directorate at the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, Vitaliy Kushnirov, has stated.

"According to the information we've received, the postponement of the meeting in a trilateral format to January was indeed initiated by the European side. There will be representatives of the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, the NCER at the January meeting from Ukraine - actually the group that participated in the negotiations earlier," he said.