KIEV, March 12 – The Ukrainian cabinet hopes that UkrGaz-Energo, 50% of the shares of which belong to the state-owned Naftogaz Ukrayiny, will pay dividends for 2006 and 2007 before its liquidation, according to First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov.

"We hope that the intermediary would fulfill its liabilities and would not disappear without paying Naftogaz Ukrayiny," he told the press in Kiev on Tuesday, adding that the dividends of the holding are around UAH1 billion.