KIEV, July 4 - The Russian Union of Metal and Steel Suppliers (formerly the Russian association of steel traders) and the Ukrainian Association of Steel Traders are developing cooperation. Specific areas of cooperation, they say, will include the exchange of information on their countries' markets, boosting steel trading and strengthening relations between the two non-commercial organizations.

Ukrainian Association of Steel Traders President Andriy Fedoseyev spoke to Interfax-Ukraine after a meeting of the Russian Union of Metal and Steel Suppliers held in late June in Moscow, in which he took part on an invitation by the head of this organization, Alexander Romanov.