Azarov at talks with IMF: Ukraine hopes gas contract with Gazprom will be revised

18:00, 07.02.2013 1 min read

Ukraine will continue to seek the revision of an 11-year gas supply contract with Russia's Gazprom signed in 2009, trying to get more advantageous terms, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.

"I think that we will move to a [revised] contract and the revision of the price," he said at a meeting with a mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Kyiv on Thursday.

He also said a new energy and coal industry minister had recently been appointed in Ukraine.

Azarov also said that the government manages to comply with the parameters of the state budget for 2013, which was adopted last December.

He said the work of the mission and negotiators from the Ukrainian side was very productive.

The head of the mission, Christopher Jarvis, in turn, said that the IMF was interested in two main questions, one of which was the pace of economic growth.