No agreements on Ukraine's accession to the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian Customs Union will be signed during a session of the Russian-Ukrainian interstate commission on December 17, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov has said.
“The agenda includes a broad range of issues primarily pertaining to trade and economic cooperation. The objective is to preserve, expand, and deepen our trade-economic package. The matter is not only about what side Ukraine should join but chiefly about the need for us to build broader economic cooperation on the expanse between Lisbon and Vladivostok,” Ushakov said in a televised interview shown on Rossiya 1 TV channel on Saturday.
A number of documents are being drawn up now to be signed at the interstate commission meeting on December 17, Ushakov said.
“I don’t think the phrase Customs Union will be mentioned in these documents,” he said.
“I would like to wish Russian-Ukrainian relations to deepen and broaden, so that we never lose traditional ties bonding our brotherly nations and ordinary people,” he said.
