KYIV, April 20 - It is critically important for Ukraine to depoliticize decision making regarding energy prices for further promotion under the program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Director of the IMF's European Department Poul Thomsen has said.

"We are concerned that energy prices again have become a political issue, and we think that it is critically important that Ukraine return to this policy of depoliticizing decision making regarding energy prices," he said at a briefing in Washington on Friday.