Interfax: Georgia can have free trade regime with EU and Russia – Abashidze

Tblisi, Georgia, File Photo with Building with Tower on Hillside and City Buildings in Valley in Distance

TBILISI. May 14 (Interfax) – Zurab Abashidze, the Georgian prime minister’s special representative on relations with Russia, said he sees no obstacles to Georgia’s having a free trade zone both with the European Union and Russia.

“There is no contradiction in Georgia’s having a free trade regime with the European Union and the same privileged trade regime with Russia,” Abashidze told reporters on Wednesday, commenting on the agreement on Georgia’s association with the EU, which includes an agreement on a free trade zone and which is expected to be signed on June 27.

“We will do it, we will have integration with the European Union and we will try to come out of the deadlock situation in our relations with Russia gradually, step by step,” Abashidze said.

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