KIEV, June 22 – Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has urged the European Parliament to introduce additional trade preferences for Ukrainian goods.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that a total of 230 lawmakers finally backed resolution No. 6517.

In its address the Ukrainian parliament asks the European Parliament "to endorse a draft legal initiative introducing additional autonomous preferences for goods made in Ukraine as worded by the European Commission, without any exception and abbreviation."