KYIV, Nov 23 – The Cabinet of Ministers continues discussing the issue of increasing the price of gas with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as the issue is a key condition for approval of the new cooperation program with the IMF, Finance Minister Oksana Markarova said.

"The issue of energy reform and raising gas prices, and, accordingly, raising tariffs, which is connected with this, is one of the issues we are discussing," she said at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.