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15 of April, 20:02

EC: the European Union will not revise the free trade agreement with Ukraine
The European Union is unwilling to reconsider the already ratified the agreement with Ukraine on free trade, said the European Commissioner for neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations Johannes Hahn.
"The European Union has been and remains open to the discussion of possible fears. However, there is no opportunity to revise the Treaty, which has already ratified a significant number of EU countries ", - quotes RIA Khan "news" referring to the official Internet portal of the EC.



yesterday Deputy head of the Ministry of economic development Alex Likhachev said that Kiev has taken a number of decisions of the points of the Treaty on the Union with the EU, but such a "creeping" implementation is only theoretical as long as the risks for the Russian Federation. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the European Parliament on 16 September 2014 were startegically the Association agreement between Kyiv and Brussels, However, the use of a free trade agreement has been postponed until 1 January 2016. The Russian side has stated many times that if the timing of implementation of the economic part of the agreement will be violated, she will introduce measures to protect its economy, including import duties on items from Ukraine. Throughout the period of implementation of this consensus, Russia has promised not to impose measures to protect its economy, including import duties on items from Ukraine. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation made a report, according to which Moscow hopes that Kiev and the EU will not break consensus on postponing the creation of a free trade zone, and reserves the right, without delay, to respond to non-compliance with this agreement.

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