Brussels, 05/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - In a telephone conversation on Thursday 4 October, Ukraine's Energy Minister Yuri Boiko ensured EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs that the new trade dispute between Ukraine and Russian gas giant Gazprom (see EUROPE 9515) would be settled on 1 November 2007. Following a meeting with Boiko in Moscow on Wednesday, the Russian deputy prime minister and the president of Gazprom's board of managers, Dimitri Medvedev, said that Ukraine had promised to settle its $1.3 billion debt for gas deliveries in 2007 by 1 November in order to ensure that there would not be any disturbance in supplies of gas to the EU market. Gazprom said on Friday 5 October that the talks would be continuing in Moscow on Monday between Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller and Ukraine's energy minister. (eh)