CIS Heads of Government to Discuss Ukraine?

... settlement of the Ukrainian crisis may not be a separate item on the meeting’s agenda. Meanwhile, Kiev has signed the CIS Free Trade Zone Treaty and the document has come into force for Ukraine. So the issue of how one squares membership of the CIS Free Trade Zone and the Free Trade Zone with the European Union is likely to come up in one way or another. A consolidated opinion of the CIS countries on the issue would amount to a breakthrough. However, such a decision can only be made by the Council of the Commonwealth Heads of State. It is common knowledge that even the “Eurasian troika” has failed to come up with a common ...