KIEV, Nov. 18 – The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has decided to merge state-owned Naftogaz Ukrayiny and its subsidiary Gaz Ukrayiny, according to a statement in the Uriadovy Kurier newspaper.

The decision was stipulated in ministry order No. 656 of October 27.

"Gaz Ukrayiny announces the cessation of its activities and its joining the successors: Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Naftogaz's subsidiary Budivelnyk," reads the statement.