KIEV, Jan. 14 - The newly appointed top management of national Naftogaz Ukrayiny is initiating the dissolution of gas transport agreements between UkrGaz-Energo as the gas supplier on the one side and gas transport companies - Ukrtransgaz and regional and city gas suppliers - on the other side.

As one of the gas market players told Interfax-Ukraine, the state company's representatives, during a Jan. 11 conference call, urged the management of Ukrtransgaz, regional and city gas supplying companies to collect funds for gas transportation services directly from the counteragent-consumers of UkrGaz-Energo, while currently the funds for such services are being collected by UkrGaz-Energo.