Yatseniuk predicts full Russian embargo on Ukrainian agricultural exports in 2016 due to EU-Ukraine free trade zone agreement
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has predicted that Russia will impose a full embargo on Ukrainian agricultural exports in 2016 when the free trade zone agreement with the EU comes into force.
"They [Russia] want to impose an embargo, when the agreement on the free trade zone [with the EU] fully comes into force on January 1, 2016… As far as I understand, they will completely block the market for us. Therefore, when it comes to this, we'll continue looking for new markets and increasing export volumes of products," he said at a briefing after a meeting with grain traders in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi on Friday.
As reported, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Moscow didn't see any reason to expect an agreement with Ukraine and the EU on free trade zone agreement issues by the end of the year.
According to him, the ban on agricultural exports will come in force only in case of Ukraine's implementation of the economic part of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.
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