OREANDA-NEWS. November 25, 2013. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov hopes to remove all barriers in mutual trade with the CIS in 2014. He emphasized at a session of the Government commenting the results of the sitting of the Council of the heads of governments of countries-members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which was held in Saint Petersburg.

“From the next year Ukraine is to hold CIS presidency. Implementation of achieved arrangements concerning use of all possibilities of free trade area will be the principal and constant point of the agenda of Ukraine’s presidency. I hope with joining efforts in 2014 we will remove all barriers in mutual trade,” Mykola Azarov told and added it was necessary as a counterbalance to recession on main export markets of our country.

Besides, according to him, during CIS chairmanship attention of Ukraine will be focused on creating new projects and programs of industrial cooperation of CIS, that use competitive advantages of our countries in air-space, transport areas, ship-building, agro-industrial complex, oil and energy complex, scientific-technical spheres.

At this, Mykola Azarov noted that we should start immediately to ensure work along such agenda.