The EC holds out hope for political contacts with Russia on Association between the EU and Ukraine
Maria Knyazeva. The European Commission expects that the contacts with the participation of the Russian Federation at the expert level by the Association of the EU with Ukraine in the near future will go to the political level, said Tuesday the Commissioner of the EC.
before Tuesday 1st Deputy head of the Ministry of economic development Alex Likhachev said that experts from Russia, Ukraine and the European Union at the beginning of the upcoming week will meet in Brussels for the first time after the appointment of new leadership in trading blocs of the EU and Ukraine to discuss the implications of the economic part of the Treaty of Kiev-EU.
"A trilateral dialogue between the EU, Ukraine and Russia will resume next week, to reach a practical resolution to the concerns identified by the Russian side in relation to the application of the Treaty on free trade between Ukraine and the EU. These dialogs on a technical level, held in Brussels on the first day of the week and Tuesday, we expect that the contacts at the technical level very soon will move to the political level, " said Commissioner of the press service of the EC.
The Russian side stressed that the risks to the economy remain due to the fact that Ukraine has begun to apply a number of decisions of the contract in terms of standards, technical regulation and phitosanitary norms.