The International Monetary Fund (IMF) continues insisting on raising a domestic price for natural gas to the population of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian News Agency learnt this from a well-informed source.
According to the source, the IMF continues pressing the government on changing a method for calculation of gas price as preliminary was set out in order No.187.
The Cabinet of Ministers tried to re-negotiate with the IMF the method of calculation of a gas price to prevent it from rising, but the IMF officials refused to accept amendments proposed by the government.
On January 17 the information appeared that the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine suggested the Cabinet to adopt a new method of calculation of a price of natural gas to the population starting from April 2018 that would result in more than 8-percent gas price increase.
The relevant bill was registered in the Cabinet and posted on the website of the Ministry of Energy.
The source to whom the Ukrainian News spoke said that the IMF officially had not confirmed receiving the bill, but the fund's specialists were already studying it.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in October 2017, Cabinet postponed indefinitely establishing a price for natural gas based on import parity as had been planned already for the period from October 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018.
According to the calculation method of gas price based on import parity suggested by the governmental order No.187 dated March 22, 2017, the price of gas to the population and municipal heating companies was expected to increase by 17.6% from October 1, 2017.
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