ECONOMY
SYMPOSIUM TO DISCUSS FUNCTIONING OFFREE TRADE ZONE IN THE CIS
An International scientific symposium on the theme "Mechanisms of introducing and the optimal functioning of the free trade zone between the CIS member states" has been scheduled for 15-16 August in Yalta. According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, participants of the symposium will discuss legal and economic aspects of creating and the functioning of a free trade zone.
Also, participants will consider using world experience setting up regional commercial unions, as well as institutional, monitoring and informational systems in the structure of the free trade zone in the CIS.
The meeting will end with the adoption of an appeal to the heads of states of the CIS. This symposium is organized on the initiative of the chairman of the Council of CIS Heads of States, President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. It also incorporates a meeting for ministers of economy from all the CIS states.