Ukrainian media reported a secret meeting of Groysman's government
The Cabinet of Ministers extended the validity of special obligations (PSO) for the sale of natural gas for the needs of the population and heat and utilities (TKE) at a reduced price until October 18, thus refusing the IMF’s demand to increase the price of gas for the population, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was announced by the press secretary of Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman Vasily Ryabchuk.
“We continued the PSO until October 18,” he said.
According to him, the corresponding decision was made at a government meeting on Friday.
The Interfax-Ukraine publication notes that there were no messages about the holding of the corresponding meeting either on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers or on the government’s pages on social networks.
As reported, Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 187 of March 22, 2017 provided that special obligations for the sale of gas to the population and heating utilities would be valid until April 1, 2018, but later the government continued them until the end of May, and even later - until the end of July, August and September .
Ukraine, within the framework of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, undertook to abandon PSO and move to market prices, but in the summer and autumn of 2017 it refused to implement them.
Now the issue of gas prices for the population is key to the resumption of financing from the IMF.
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