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The agreement on a free trade area (FTA) with the CIS will take effect on September 23, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
Years of fruitless negotiations to create a free-trade zone among the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States unexpectedly came to a successful conclusion on October 18, when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appeared before journalists in St. Petersburg and said: "We discussed [a free-trade agreement], made some corrections, and adopted its final text."
The prime ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member countries failed to reach an agreement on the creation of a free trade zone during the meeting of the CIS heads of governments in Minsk on Thursday, local media reported.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are to create a free trade area and single econonmic area
A free trade agreement between the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) may be signed by the end of the current year, Executive Secretary of the CIS, Sergey Lebedev, told journalists Tuesday.
Russia is going to draft an agreement before the end of the year on a CIS free trade area involving at first Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, says the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
CIS member states are working in a draft Agreement on Free Trade Zone
