KIEV, May 29 - Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has denied allegations that the government was not holding talks with Russia to amend the gas contract signed in 2009 and says that this question could be resolved only through talks.

While opening a government meeting on Wednesday, he said that Ukraine, represented by the president, the prime minister and the energy minister, had over the last three years raised the question of changing the terms of the gas contract at all meetings with Russian colleagues.