KIEV, December 26. /TASS/.
Ukraine is negotiating the creation of free trade zones with Turkey and Israel,
Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Natalia Mikolskaya said on
Saturday. "Ukraine keeps moving ahead to free trade agreements with some
countries. Colossal work has been carried out at bilateral meetings. We
discussed with the Israeli and Turkish delegations on how the effective trade
relations could be established," Mikolskaya said adding that "those
markets are crucial for Ukrainian exporters of grain and oil-bearing crops."
Talks with Israel reaffirmed the sides’ readiness
to draft a free trade agreement, she said. Along with this, Kiev and Ankara
were engaged in the negotiations that "imply substitution of Russian
products by Ukrainian ones." Earlier last week, Mikolskaya said that
another round of talks between Ukraine and Turkey was scheduled for the
beginning of 2016. "The next round of talks is to be held in Turkey at the
beginning of 2016," she said.
For accelerating the business dialogue, Kiev
is keen to organise a trade mission with participation of Ukraine’s agriculture
and food minister to meet with business people in Turkey’s capital city and
regions. Ukraine’s and Turkey’s delegations agreed not to impose restrictive
measures in trade if possible, she said. The sides also agreed to work out at
experts’ level the propositions aimed at boosting trade and at increasing
quality of investment projects in the Ukrainian agricultural sector, aircraft
construction and IT-industry.
Earlier in the week, President Petro Poroshenko
made a two-day visit to Israel.
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