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Yalta – Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said he hopes that the CIS member states that have not signed the agreement on the establishment of a free trade area will soon join the treaty. 

“If we want to create a large and serious free trade area, we certainly need the rest of the countries (the CIS member states) to sign the document, go through relevant procedures and join in this treaty,” he said at a meeting with Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Zhantoro Satybaldiyev in Yalta on Thursday.

He also spoke about the need to increase trade between Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.