Ukraine freezes free trade talks with Serbia

Canada, Turkey and Israel are among non-EU Member States, Ukraine aims to conclude free trade area agreements with. However, the FTA talks with Serbia have been frozen.

Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine, Trade Representative of Ukraine Natalia Mykolska said this in a commentary to an Ukrinform correspondent in Brussels.

"Our priority for this year is to form a list of countries, which we are negotiating on further liberalization with, in unison with Ukrainian business. We have much work. We need to complete [FTA talks with] Canada - to ratify the free trade area agreement. It is necessary to reach a certain level in talks with Turkey and Israel. We have suspended talks with Serbia. It was on the agenda, but at the moment we do not see a big request of businesses for these negotiations," the Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine said.

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