KIEV, Aug. 23 – The participants of a free trade area within the Commonwealth of Independent States cannot expel Ukraine from the community, but they can leave the free trade area and apply sanctions to the country, said Viktor Suslov, Ukraine's representative in the Eurasian Economic Commission.

In exclusive comments to Interfax-Ukraine, he stressed that the articles and provisions of the CIS FTA agreement and other international instruments regulate the settlement of various trade and economic conflicts.