OREANDA-NEWS. April 17, 2013. Ukraine is broadly participating in various projects in the frames of the Commonwealth of Independent States and planning to continue this line in the future, the Prime Minister declared answering questions of the Facebook social network users.

Mykola Azarov informed on Friday, as a head of the Regions’ Party, he had held a meeting with representatives of friendly parties of the CIS during which he had briefed about projects of Ukraine in the CIS frameworks.

He reminded that Ukraine expected to receive an observer status in the Customs Union, to create a permanent representative office of our state within the Customs Union commission and actively participate in considering of all the decisions readied by leaders of this commission.

The Premier also informed that the Government of Ukraine had also set up a special group for study of contractual legal base of the Customs Union. This group also studies which concrete agreements Ukraine can join and on which conditions.

“The mentioned issues will be discussed in late May during a meeting of presidents of countries of the Customs Union and our President,” Mykola Azarov told.

Besides, today a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Volodymyr Semashko took place. “As you definitely know Belarus could not only preserve the plants in the area of agriculture machine building, but produces very good combines, tractors, attached and towing equipment. We have agreed to stir up creating of joint enterprises producing agriculture equipment on the territory of Ukraine,” Mykola Azarov told.
 
He reminded that a week ago Ukraine was receiving Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. “These meetings also dealt with serious huge cooperation projects, which embrace various national economy sectors,” he underlined.