Kyiv proposes another round of tripartite consultations on FTA with EU in December - Poroshenko

"I want to emphasize that with my consen, we proposed holding yet another consultation before the end of the year," the Ukrainian president said at a press conference after the talks with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite in Vilnius on Wednesday. He once again stressed that the FTA between the EU and Ukraine poses no threat to the Russia, and Kyiv agreed to discuss Russia's concerns during the tripartite consultations. At the same time, he assured that no matter what the FTA between Ukraine and the European Union will start operating from January 1, 2016. On December 1, Brussels hosted the Ukraine-EU-Russia consultations with respect to the economic part of the association agreement.