BRUSSELS, Oct 29 – The European Commission suggested a 10-year timeframe for the new natural gas transit contract between Ukraine and Russia, and Kyiv fully supports it, Energy Minister Oleksiy Orzhel said Tuesday.

"Today we've discussed with our European partners and accepted new proposals regarding the framework for working with a gas transit contract. We fully support these proposals and are grateful to our European partners for them," Orzhel said following the fourth round of talks in the trilateral Ukraine-Russia-European Commission format in Brussels.