Kiev: the Text of the FTA EU-Ukraine agreed not to change
Russia, EU and Ukraine agreed that the text of the Treaty on the free trade area EU-Ukraine and the date of entry into force - 1 January 2016

Russia, EU and Ukraine agreed that the text of the Treaty on the free trade area EU-Ukraine And the date of entry into force - 1 January 2016 will not change, said on the first day of the week the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin on the results of the trilateral Ministerial meeting of the Russia-EU-Ukraine trade.
"The main result of the present consultation was General agreement that the text and timing of the enactment of the Treaty on the free trade area could not be changed ", - he said, reports the news Agency.
"We decided to continue the technical meeting for specialists in three main areas: customs administration, technical barriers to trade, as well As veterinary and phytosanitary standards. Date of the next Ministerial meeting until not defined, " he said. For his part, the Minister of economic development of Russia Alexei Ulyukayev at the meeting, said that Russia, the EU and Ukraine has formulated the mandate for professionals for practice in customs and technical regulation and sanitary control." We are trying to find with our colleagues the answers to the questions, - said the speaker.- We went through a big agenda today, and the result was the formulation of the mandate for experts on development issues of greatest concern ". According to his statement, this applies to technical regulation, customs administration, And improving information exchange at the tripartite level." And that would remove the concern on the issue of country of origin of articles imported into the Russian Federation - measures in the field of phytosanitary surveillance that would allow businesses not to have additional administrative barriers, etc.," he showed the speaker. Professionals are required to prepare materials for these problematic issues by July, he added. A free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union, the introduction of which is part of the Treaty on the unity must earn in full from 1 January 2016. Russia made a proposal to postpone the introduction of the free trade zone before January 1, 2017, however, Kiev has not shown enthusiasm in this matter. At the end of April, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Kiev wants for 5 years to provide the implementation of the agreement with the European Union about the unity and achieve the conditions for applying for EU membership. Recall, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the European Parliament on 16 September 2014 ratified the Association agreement between Kyiv and Brussels, however, the use of a free trade agreement has been postponed 2016.