MOSCOW, March 5 (Reuters) - Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian couterpart, Victor Yanukovych, did not discuss lowering the price Ukraine pays for Russian gas when they met on Mar. 5.
"We agreed that all questions of our cooperation, including gas, will be discussed in the framework of forming the new government of Ukraine and in the framework of preparing for President Medvedev’s meeting in the first half of this year in Kiev," the minister said.
The two countries are frequently at odds over Ukraine’s inability to pay its gas bills, and Ukrainian state energy firm Naftogaz onMar. 5said it reached an agreement to delay payment of $2.8 billion of debt.
