Finance Minister Unakitan Leaves For Prague

ANKARA - Finance Minister Kemal Unakitan left for the Czech Republic on Friday.
Unakitan will attend ''State-Private Sector Partnership Forum'' in Prague.
Replying to questions of reporters prior to his departure for Prague via Vienna, Unakitan said that they had to increase price of cigarettes and gasoline.
''We are left no choice but to increase these in price. However, we try to keep the increase at minimum rate,'' he said.
(MS) 27.02.2004