LJAJIC: Free trade agreement with Eurasian Economic Union to be signed during Putin’s visit

The free trade agreement between Serbia and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) should be signed during the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin in early 2019, Rasim Ljajic, the Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications of Serbia, said on Friday, December 7, 2018.

– We have been negotiating about this agreement for over two years. So far, we have agreed on more than 80% of the contents of the new, more modern agreement on free trade. Around 6-7 tariff lines remain that we haven’t yet reached agreement on, but we are having intensive negotiations about them – Ljajic said following a session of the Mixed Committee for Economic Cooperation of Serbia and Azerbaijan.

He said that he hoped that a compromise would be reached regarding the remaining tariff lines.

Ljajic said that a new round of negotiations would begin the next week and that another round was planned for January.

– EEU Minister Veronika Nikishina will visit Serbia on January 11 or 12 and we will have the final talks on the contents of the agreement, so that it could be signed during the visit of the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to Serbia – Ljajic said.

Let us remind that Vladimir Putin has stated that the negotiations of the EEU with Serbia about the preferential trade agreement will soon be completed.

Ministarstvo turizma i omladine Republike Srbije

Ministry of Trade of Serbia

Rasim Ljajic

Vladimir Putin

free trade agreement of Serbia and Eurasian Economic Union

EEU