KIEV, June 17 – Ukraine believes that a priority for the CIS is to complete new wording of a free trade area agreement and sign it at a summit of the CIS member states, Ukraine's representative in the CIS Economic Council, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev, told journalists in St. Petersburg, Russia.

"In addition, the Ukrainian side is planning to promote the implementation of the CIS economic development strategy until 2010," his press service quoted him as saying.