
Yuri Yekhanurov, Prime
Minister of Ukraine, hopes that the increase of gas price for population will
not influence deeply inflation in 2006.
“We hope that this increase
will not influence severely inflationary process in the year 2006, but it is
difficult to forecast something now,” said the Premier during today’s press
conference in Luhansk.
At the same time Yekhanurov
noted that the gas price is a constituent of basket of goods, according to
which level of inflation is calculated. Yekhanurov also expressed a hope that the
influence of gas price increase would not be so deep to exceed the forecasted level
of inflation (10%) in 2006.