ASTANA - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko hopes that Russia will refrain from any restrictive measures against Ukraine following the Ukraine-EU-Russia consultations.
“In relation to the Free Trade Zone of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Ukraine remains a party to this treaty which clearly sets forth the rights and obligations of the parties. The only problem is to ensure that all the parties strictly implement all the obligations that they bound upon themselves by signing and ratifying this treaty, including its 6th annex,” Poroshenko said after talks with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana on Oct. 9.
“Intense consultations are underway now in the Ukraine-EU-Russia trilateral format and I suppose that the agreements will result in the decision of the Russian government to refrain from those alleged restrictions that it is planning to impose with no reference to any documents,” Poroshenko said.
