Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has expressed hope that the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) between Ukraine and the EU will enter into force on January 1, 2016.
‘We expect that the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area with the European Union will start working in full from January 1, 2016. At the same time, the European Union actually unilaterally has opened its market for Ukrainian goods on the conditions of the first year of the FTA. This definitely had a positive influence on our bilateral trade,’ the president said in a statement on the occasion of the anniversary of signing the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement.
The president expressed regret for the fact that war in Donbas and active actions of the enemy in autumn and winter resulted in the worsening of the upward pace.
‘Enemy is taking all possible measures not to allow Ukraine’s economic integration with the European Union, which is a guarantee of strengthening the economic sovereignty of our state and long-time prosperity,’ Poroshenko said.
