KYIV. Oct 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin has stressed the importance of the documents signed between Ukraine and Italy in the context of the implementation of a free trade area (FTA) between Ukraine and the EU.
“The implementation of a free trade area between Ukraine and the EU will start in full from January 1 next year and, of course, we are working to use the entire potential, all the possibilities that will be laid in it,” he said at a briefing with Foreign Minister of Italy Paolo Gentiloni in Kyiv.
He expressed satisfaction that the Ukrainian and Italian parties in their cooperation covered various spheres of interaction.
“In the future we will move to cooperation with the involvement of the regions of Ukraine and Italy,” Klimkin said.
According to him, the documents signed by Ukraine and Italy on October 27 are the evidence of a fruitful work.
“This testifies about special attention we pay to the development of economic cooperation,” the Ukrainian foreign minister stressed.
