OREANDA-NEWS. March 21, 2013.  There are no direct links between the gas price for Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund's decision on the allocation of stand-by credit for our country.

This was stated by First vice Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov at a press conference in Kyiv.

"There are no direct links between the work of the IMF in our country and the gas price. Program with the IMF continues to operate in the mode in which it should work", Serhiy Arbuzov noted.

He informed that the new cooperation program will provide Ukraine 15 billion dollars (10 billion Special Drawing Rights - ed.) "It is no different from the previous one. And we now have talks just as we negotiate before," the First vice Prime Minister assured.