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Cabinet raises gas price for population
27.04.2016 17:13 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The Ukrainian Cabinet, as planned, has set a single gas price for the country population at the level of UAH6,879 per 1,000 cubic meters, UNIAN reports.
As to the report, while presenting the decision, First Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv and Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Igor Nasalyk said that the establishment of such a price would put an end to speculation on the gas market.
In turn, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said that this was not an easy decision, and it would provoke much public debate, but it would allow abolishing all previous schemes, which allowed making money on a difference in the price of fuel.
«Based on the predicted gas prices in the European market, as well as the cost of transporting gas to the western border of Ukraine, the price of gas as a commodity is set at UAH4,942 per 1,000 cubic meters,» Kubiv said.
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