President Viktor Yushchenko hopes that a decision on Ukraine’s accession to the Energy Community Treaty will be taken at the December 18 meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Energy Community, he has said this in Lutsk when on a meeting with lecturers and students of Volyn National University named after Lesya Ukrainka. The head of state pointed a significant progress over the last four years on the way toward Eurointegration. .The matter concerns a political decision, signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU,. Yushchenko emphasized. Besides, the Ukrainian President stated that a considerable work has been done in creating free trade zone. .We have passed three-quarter of these negotiations for today,. he underscored. As UKRINFORM reported, Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko said during a joint press conference with his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Liberman that Ukraine would sign the Agreement on Association with the European Union in 2010. Poroshenko specified that the agreement cannot be signed without a free trade treaty” .This is an absolutely new form of cooperation between Ukraine and the EU, which needs thorough elaboration of each specific commodity group, protecting the interests of both the Ukrainian producer and the Ukrainian economy,. Poroshenko said. He reminded that Ukraine did similar work in 12 years during accession to the World Trade Organization. “I assure the process will be completed in 2010, and the Association Agreement will be signed in 2010. According to our optimistic hopes, this is going to be done in the first half of the next year,. Poroshenko emphasized.
