Russia didn’t seek a delay to the planned start of a free-trade pact between Ukraine and the EU at trilateral talks on Monday, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said.
Reuters quoted Malmstrom as saying that the three sides agreed in a joint statement after their talks in Brussels that the free-trade pact “will be provisionally applied” from the start of next year and the Russian side made no mention of delaying the trade deal.
“The reference that the (trade agreement) enter into force on 1 January 2016 was not contested by the Russian delegation,” Malmstrom said, according to AFP.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Economy Minister …read more
Source: Novinite
