IV circle of negotiations on free trade area between the EU and Ukraine will be carried out in Brussels on October 20-24, 2008, according to the Mission of Ukraine to European Communities.

Ukraine's delegation will be ruled by Valery Pyatnytskiy, the Deputy Minister for Economy of Ukraine, while the EU Delegation is headed by Eva Synowiec, EC DG Trade Director.

The parties are going to focus on several parts of the mutual agreement between Ukraine and the EU to regulate tariff offer, intellectual property rights, sustainable development, public procurement, different services, customs and trade features.

As it was already noted in recent news about international relations of Ukraine, although the new agreement with Ukraine is most hopefully to get the name of an "association agreement," it won't envisage any pure prospect of Ukraine's membership of the European Union, Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in Brussels on Tuesday following a meeting of the Council of the EU.

"It was significantly important to reach the common decision concerning the package... on the association agreement and concerning our deeper commitments on the enhanced agreement, but it (the agreement) won't envisage any future growth and development of the relations of EU with Ukraine," she reported.

"We think that Ukraine has to do a lot of to stabilize its domestic politics," she added.

She mentioned about the serious conflicts between President Viktor Yuschenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

"We would like to see this change," she noted.

Ferrero-Waldner said the matter would be also at the discussion at the Ukraine-EU summit in France on September 9, 2008.

A well-informed source reported that members of the EU had arrived at a common position on recognizing Ukraine as a European country in the preliminary statement of the agreement.