Electricity tariffs will remain unchanged in 2009, vice prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, Omurbek Babanov, said speaking in front of the Parliament members in Bishkek Friday.

“However, in 2010 the raise is inevitable as the government can not reach consensus,” Babanov said.

Therewith, the parliamentarian, Ibragim Junusov, says electricity tariffs should not grow. “Usually government try to support citizens and lower costs for basic commodities in the midst of the economic crisis, but ours on the contrary indents to raise tariffs,” Junusov said.