MOSCOW, Oct. 13 - Belarus and Ukraine are planning to agree on a common price policy for transporting Russian gas to Western Europe along trunk pipelines, a source wishing to remain anonymous told Interfax.

Chairman of the board of directors at UkrTransGaz Yaroslav Marchuk and General Director of Lvivtransgaz Mikhail Derkach will hold talks on Oct. 17-19 in Minsk with Beltransgaz, the operators of the Belarusan gas transport system, the source said.