Ukraine and Canada on Monday signed a free trade agreement during Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first visit to Ukraine.
Canada is home to a sizeable Ukrainian minority and has been a key backer for Ukraine during the two-year separatist war in the east.
President Petro Poroshenko told a news conference at the end of the talks in Kiev on Monday that the free trade deal will do away with “99 percent of barriers within the next seven years in trade” between the two countries.
Trudeau received a rapturous welcome in Kiev with Ukraine rolling out a red carpet for Trudeau at the …read more
Source: Voice of America
