Russia calls EU-Ukraine pact an 'exemplary' breach of WTO rules


  • World
  • Tuesday, 11 Jul 2017

GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia has indicated a potential new legal salvo in its trade war with Ukraine and the European Union, telling the World Trade Organization that a trade deal between Kiev and Brussels breaks the rules by penalising Russia.

Minutes of a June 29 meeting of the WTO's committee on regional trade agreements, published on Tuesday, record Russia's representative as saying the EU-Ukraine free trade agreement was "an exemplary case of a situation where a free trade area worsened trade conditions for other trading partners".

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