BAKU, April 28 - Ukraine and Azerbaijan on Thursday began consultations seeking to join forces in setting up supplies of liquefied natural gas to markets in Europe.

President Viktor Yanukovych, who sees LNG supplies as a priority project over the next five years, traveled to Baku for a meeting with his Azeri counterpart Ilkham Aliyev to begin the consultations.

“Today we begin serious consultations on this issue,” Aliyev said at a joint press conference with Yanukovych in Baku, according to a report by the Yanukovych administration.