KIEV, Dec. 13 – Kiev and Prague are planning to hold additional consultations regarding the pumping of Azeri oil through Ukraine and Slovakia to the oil refinery in Kralupy (the Czech Republic), Czech Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Milan Hovorka said.

"I hope that on February 15 we will hold consultations with the participation of the Slovak side and representatives of companies, who will give us a final answer on this project," he said after the fifth sitting of the Ukrainian-Czech commission for economic, industrial and science-technical cooperation in Kiev on December 12.

In turn, Mykhailo Kravchenko, head of the Foreign Economic Activity Department of Ukrtransnafta, noted that earlier the sides agreed on the trial pumping of a batch of Azeri oil through the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline and one of branches of the Druzhba pipeline to the oil refinery in Kralupy in January-February 2012.