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UKRAINE TO START TALKS WITH MEXICO ON MUTUAL INVESTMENT PROTECTION

23 March , 2016  

KYIV. March 23 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday singed a decree authorizing a Ukrainian delegation to participate in negotiations with Mexico on a draft mutual investment protection agreement.

According to decree No. 104/2016 published by the president’s press service, the creation of a Ukrainian delegation to participate in the negotiations with Mexico and agree a draft mutual investment protection agreement between Ukraine and Mexico is prescribed.

The decree orders to approve the directives of the Ukrainian delegation.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is responsible for financing the holding of the negotiations.

Oleskiy Perevezentsev, director of the law department at Ukraine’s Economic Development and Trade Ministry, will head the delegation.

The delegation also includes director of the international cooperation and secretariat protocol department of the Cabinet of Ministers Mykhailo Vydoinik, head of the chief foreign affairs and European integration department of the presidential administration Ihor Zhovkva; deputy head of the macroeconomics and financial sector department and head of the financial markets and investment department of the main economic policy department of the presidential administration Natalia Kulianytsia.

Deputy director of the law department and head of the foreign economic law department of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry Denys Lynychenko, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Mexico Ruslan Spyrin and Deputy Justice Minister of Ukraine Anton Yanchuk will also join the delegation.