Thank you.
Indeed, it's an important new chapter in our agreement.
Ukraine, like Canada, has a strong presence of indigenous people. For us, they are the Crimean Tatars, and they have been significantly oppressed for many years, including since Russia's illegal occupation of Crimea in 2014.
The chapter on trade and indigenous peoples has in mind to establish a bilateral committee to facilitate co-operation and to address barriers and challenges that prevent indigenous people from actively engaging in trade. This chapter will support our bilateral consultations on how to shape policies and support indigenous people to become more active in trade and in the business sector in general.
It's very important for us because we believe the Canadian experience, through the instrument that the modernized free trade agreement is building, will help Ukraine to shape policies and more actively support our indigenous people. I think it will also help to bring ties between the indigenous peoples of Ukraine and Canada.