)
The European Union's mediator in a gas standoff between Russia and Ukraine urged Moscow on Monday to consider a compromise gas pricing offer for deliveries to Ukraine and he said he hoped to convene more talks this month.
European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, who has brokered a series of three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine and the EU, was speaking in Vienna following the latest round of negotiations that ended without a deal in the early hours of Monday.
"My appeal to the Russian partners (is to consider) whether the proposed compromise would not be acceptable for them with some adjustments," he told a news conference.
"Further invitations for trilateral talks in June are foreseen."
