KIEV, Nov. 13 - Ukraine can successfully cope with a gradual rise in prices for imported energy resources to the level of world prices, said Neven Mates, a senior economic advisor at the European Department of the International Monetary Fund.

"I don't think that this rise in prices for imported energy resources will be an unresolved problem. There is a chance [Ukraine] can cope with this quite well," he said at a briefing in Kiev.