SUMY, June 17 – President Viktor Yanukovych has said that it is currently premature to talk about the form of Ukraine's cooperation with any other countries in the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transport system.

"We must modernize the gas transport system in order to improve its reliability and, of course, get a chance to increase gas pumping volumes," he told reporters in Sumy on Thursday.

Yanukovych noted that the technical capabilities of the Ukrainian gas transport system currently allowed the country to pump about 125 billion cubic meters of gas.