Ukrainian Premier Viktor Yanukovych and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev have agreed in Baku that by the end of 2003 the two sides would define the volumes of future Caspian oil supplies to fill the Odessa-Brody pipeline, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.

Yanukovych told journalists that Azerbaijan would certainly participate in the Odessa-Brody project.

Aliyev said that Azerbaijan supports the project "on a political plane", although there were certain "commercial aspects".

(NewsBase 06.xi.03)