APA - Russian president urges Ukraine to move closer to CU:
"Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday urged Ukraine to take further steps towards closer economic integration with the Russia-led Customs Union (CU), APA reports quoting Xinhua.
"Today there is a very tense competition in world markets. I'm sure we can be competitive and win in this rather tough competition only through joint efforts," Putin told an international conference on Ukraine's further political path in Kiev.
Putin said that despite the global financial slowdown, the trade turnover within the CU rose some 3 percent in the first quarter of the current year, while bilateral trade between Ukraine and Russia was down 17 percent in the same period."
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