Indeed, Ukraine is also tirelessly working on the economic front and on trade.
Since the start of the Russian full-scale invasion, Ukraine has already signed a digital trade agreement with the United Kingdom. We started negotiations to modernize our free trade agreement with the non-EU states, EFTA. We also started negotiations to sign for free trade with the United Arab Emirates, and we continue negotiations with Montenegro.
As well, in May this year, Ukraine submitted the application for CPTPP. I think the negotiation of this modernized CUFTA helped us, in a large portion, prepare for the negotiations to join CPTPP. The rounds of negotiations we went through for the modernized CUFTA helped us a lot to mostly do our homework, but also to be ready and prepared for that negotiation. That was very helpful for us on our future path to CPTPP.
I would like to thank Canada and the Canadian government for their support of Ukraine's submission to CPTPP.