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Yekhanurov: Increase of gas price will not influence deeply inflation

Yekhanurov: Increase of gas price will not influence deeply inflation

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.