Deputy FM Klisović attends FAC (Trade)

Deputy Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Joško Klisović 27 November in Brussels attended a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in the trade configuration

Deputy Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Joško Klisović 27 November in Brussels attended a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in the trade configuration. The ministers supported the European Commission’s efforts to advance the multilateral trade system at the pending WTO conference in Nairobi and facilitate the underdeveloped countries’ access to global market. The applauded the greater transparency of the United States’ TTIP talks, whose next round is expected to begin in February 2016. Regarding the negotiations on free trade agreements, the ministers welcomed continued talks with Mercosur and Japan, closing of the talks with Vietnam and launching talks with the Philippines. As for the trilateral EU-Ukraine-Russia talks, the ministers welcomed the coming into force of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with Ukraine on 1 January 2016. The topics of the FAC also included crisis in the EU steel sector and China as an important partner with which the EU is negotiating an investment agreement, but against which a large number of antidumping procedures are being launched.

Klisović underlined the importance of transparent talks with the US, whereby Croatia places special importance on energy, mobility and mutual recognition of qualification, small and middle-sized entrepreneurship and maritime transport services. 

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