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Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said he is sure that talks with Russia on the revision of gas contracts will be positive.

"We are confident that the talks will be positive," he said, while opening a government meeting on Thursday.

Azarov noted that the main result of the talks was the fact that the arguments that the current gas contracts are disadvantageous and unfair for Ukraine had been taken into account and that a working group had been set up to consider all disputable issues on gas contracts in a short period of time.

He also said that the Russian side had agreed to consider as a comparative basis the terms of the supply and prices of Russian gas for other European countries.

"Therefore, I am instructing the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry and our negotiating team to thoroughly consider the similar terms set by Gazprom for other countries and convincingly prove that the terms of the contract for Ukraine are the worst and they do not meet the normal market conditions of price formation," he said.