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ENTRANCE OF UKRAINE INTO INTERNATIONAL MILK
FEDERATION IS STEP TO ENTRY TO WTO – KOZACHENKO
  

UNIAN-NEWS
Kyiv, Ukraine
September 25, 2002

 

Kyiv. September 25. UNIAN. The General Assembly of the International Milk Federation (IMF) decided to make Ukraine its member on the threshold of the World Milk Congress opening (which is carried out in Paris during September 23-27). The official site of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers includes this information.

As the information goes, Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine Leonid Kozachenko said that the entering of Ukraine to the International Milk Federation (IMF) is its next step for the entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

According to the words of L.Kozachenko, the membership of Ukraine in IMF will assist to the quick harmonization of the Ukrainian normative-legal base in the sphere of the milk branch, modernization and development of milk industry in accordance with the requirements of the European Union.

 

UNIAN Reference. The International Milk Federation includes 38 states. Austria, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, the USA, France and other countries are members of the IMF.

 

 
 

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