KIEV, Ukraine -- Prime Minister Mykola Azarov will travel to Moscow on Monday for talks with his Rus

KIEV, Ukraine -- Prime Minister Mykola the w hotel Azarov will travel to Moscow on Monday for talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev as worries remain that the trade dispute between the two countries may escalate again.
The worries rose after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia will resort to sweeping restrictions against Ukrainian goods if Kiev signs a free trade and political association agreements with the European Union.
"If our neighbors move to significantly liberalize a customs regime with the EU then the Ukrainian market will indeed be flooded by goods whose quality and price are rather good," Putin said, according to Interfax.
The restrictions, which amounted to a de-facto blockade of the Ukrainian goods at the border, were politically motivated to prevent Ukraine from signing the agreements with the EU in November, Ukrainian politicians said.
Azarov and Medvedev, the w hotel following a phone call earlier on Thursday, agreed to meet in Moscow to discuss the recent the w hotel problems in trade and ways of avoiding them, Natalia Timakova, a spokeswoman for Medvedev, told Interfax.
The European Commission spokesman John Clancy, in a statement on Tuesday, said it was "unacceptable" for Russia to economically threaten Ukraine, linking the threat with a possible signature of the association agreement with the EU.
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