KIEV, Nov. 7 – Thirteen leading Ukrainian financial and industrial companies, including Smart-holding, System Capital Management (SCM, Donetsk), EastOne Group, Ferrexpo, PrivatBank and others, have signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Foreign Ministry pledging to lobby for their interests abroad.

Smart-holding said that Industrial Group UPEC (Kharkiv), Continium Group, Universal Investment Group, Donetsk Iron and Steel Works, Austria's SlavAG Group, Group DF, Financial Industrial Group Altcom (Donetsk) and TAS Group attended the signing of the memo.