Ukraine to Wait on Union

March 1, 2010

KIEV — Ukraine won’t consider joining a customs union comprised of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia until the three former Soviet republics are admitted into the World Trade Organization, a presidential administration official said late Friday.

Joining the union now would “directly contradict” and “complicate” Ukraine’s membership of the WTO, which it joined in 2008, Iryna Akimova, President Viktor Yanukovych’s first deputy chief of staff, said on a talk show.

(Bloomberg)

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