KIEV, October 25 (Itar-Tass) —— Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said on Tuesday he hoped to agree the gas price with Russia within a month.

“We shall agree with Russia on gas prices within the next month,” he said while on a trip to Dnepropetrovsk.

On October 20, Ukrainian Minister of Energy and the Coal Industry Yuri Boiko, commenting on the progress at the Russian-Ukrainian gas talks, said that the two countries had to agree on several directions in order to settle their gas disputes. In his words, first they should create a model that would acceptable to the economies of both countries and would be in line with their national interests.