KIEV, April 3 - Ukraine will pay in full for March Russian natural gas imports before the deadline of April 7 to avert a clash with Gazprom, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.

“Beginning from January 1, we have been making timely payments,” Tymoshenko said at a press conference Thursday. “We paid in time for January supplies, we paid in time for February supplies and we will pay in time for March supplies.”