OREANDA-NEWS. March 14, 2008. Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko assures that the Government does not mean to increase the gas price for population and teplocommunenergo. She disclosed this today at press conference, commenting upon the statements that such price increase is possible already in April-June.

According to Yulia Tymoshenko, the population is getting the Ukrainian gas and the Government did not adopt any decisions on increasing this price. “We think that we should increase wages, pensions, bursaries first and then increase the gas price,” the PM stated.

Moreover, Yulia Tymoshenko assured that there are no grounds for increasing gas price for teplocommunenergo. As she says, teplocommunenergo are partially getting gas of Central Asian origin at stable price during the year - 179,5 USD per one thousand cubic meters.