OREANDA-NEWS. On April 29, 2009 The Prime Minister of Ukraine promised support to Russia on the part of Ukraine in the issue of WTO accidence. She declared at the beginning of the sitting of the Committee on Economic Cooperation of Ukrainian-Russian Interstate Commission.

Yulia Tymoshenko noted mutually beneficial trade lays a basis for economic cooperation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. “In my opinion, present conditions force us to refuse from excessive protectionism, creating new barriers for trade in goods and services and, it seems to me, we succeed in that”.

Yulia Tymoshenko informed through the year that passed since the previous sitting of the Committee the Governments of the two states have managed to achieve practically full implementation of the approved there decisions.

The Head of Ukrainian Government reminded only in the course of the year 9 meetings have been held on the level of sections on economic cooperation issues, notably trade, and constant search of ways is taking place to smooth trade relations after accidence of Ukraine to the WTO. At this, Yulia Tymoshenko promised the Government of Ukraine would facilitate faster accidence of Russia to this organization: “In this issue support of Ukraine will always be on your side”.

At the same time, as the Prime Minister put it, the world financial-economic turmoil has greatly influenced the development of economic situation in both Ukraine and Russia, which, in its turn, brought certain changes into the dynamics of bilateral trade-economic cooperation. The Premier of Ukraine noted in the course of today’s consultations held between the leaders of the governments of the two states all possible elements of collaboration have been tackled with an aim to strengthen trade turnover: “I think such variants will be found and we have to worry about returning of amounts we experienced in pre-crisis times”.