PM: Ukraine to stop all trade with Crimea from mid-January 2016

KIEV, Dec 16 (PRIME) -- Ukraine will suspend all trading with Crimea from mid-January 2016, excluding only socially important foods, while power supplies to the peninsula will require approval of the National Security and Defense Council, Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said during a Wednesday government meeting.

“In accordance with a decision of Ukraine’s government…which comes in force 30 days after it was made, supplies of all works, goods and services under all customs regimes from the temporarily occupied territory to the other Ukraine’s territory and from Ukraine’s territory to the temporarily occupied territory are banned, excluding personal belongings of citizens, socially important food and humanitarian aid,” he said.

“Speaking of power delivery, such delivery may be carried out only after approval by the National Security and Defense Council. Today the government will make this decision, it will be published and will come in force in 30 days.”

Crimea held a referendum and decided to join Russia in March 2014. Since then, Kiev sees the peninsula as a temporarily occupied territory.

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