Ukraine a good economic partner for eu - tymoshenko
11 March 2008
Published in Interfax
Ukraine is a good economic partner for the European Union, Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.
After Ukraine joined the World Trade Organization Kyiv started talks with Brussels on creating a free trade zone which is also stipulated in the new EU-Ukraine Enhanced Agreement which is currently being negotiated, she said at the EU-Ukraine conference in Brussels on Monday.
The creation of the free trade zone will include four clauses: free movement of goods, services, capital and labor resources.
"How long it will take us to make this way depends on Ukraine. For a long time Ukraine had professed an EU integration strategy which was not entirely clear. With the arrival of our team the EU integration has become the core of our domestic policy," Tymoshenko said.
Ukraine is a good economic partner for the European Union, Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said.
After Ukraine joined the World Trade Organization Kyiv started talks with Brussels on creating a free trade zone which is also stipulated in the new EU-Ukraine Enhanced Agreement which is currently being negotiated, she said at the EU-Ukraine conference in Brussels on Monday.
The creation of the free trade zone will include four clauses: free movement of goods, services, capital and labor resources.
"How long it will take us to make this way depends on Ukraine. For a long time Ukraine had professed an EU integration strategy which was not entirely clear. With the arrival of our team the EU integration has become the core of our domestic policy," Tymoshenko said.
In the new enhanced agreement Ukraine would like to
see provisions about political association, "all of
us would like to have a hope, a path, that Ukraine
will sooner or later become an EU member," she said.
Ukraine is moving in this direction [building a free trade zone with EU], Tymoshenko said.
At the same time she pointed to the need for a bilateral cooperation. In particular, in areas such as economic integration by attracting investment and setting up joint ventures "in crucial sectors of the economy," she said.
Ukraine is a good economic partner for the EU, she said, adding that the economic indicators for 2008 have set a 6.8% GDP growth rate and a reduction of the inflation rate by half compared to 2007.
Ukraine is moving in this direction [building a free trade zone with EU], Tymoshenko said.
At the same time she pointed to the need for a bilateral cooperation. In particular, in areas such as economic integration by attracting investment and setting up joint ventures "in crucial sectors of the economy," she said.
Ukraine is a good economic partner for the EU, she said, adding that the economic indicators for 2008 have set a 6.8% GDP growth rate and a reduction of the inflation rate by half compared to 2007.