The European Union wishes to the conference of the Eastern partnership in Riga to speak in favour of the entry into force of the agreement on free trade with Ukraine from 1 January 2016, Reuters reports citing a draft of the Declaration of Brussels. As underlined by the Agency referring to the Ukrainian bureaucrat, Russia insists that the entry into force of the Treaty has to be postponed for another year, however, the EU believes that additional delays can not be. according to the Agency, the EU is ready to discuss issues that concern Russia, one way or another, according to the draft version of the statement, the entry into force of the Treaty " will be one of the main priorities of the EU and having the interest of partners in the next few years ". the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker last week said that the free trade agreement between Ukraine and the European Union, the introduction of which was delayed before the start of next year, shall come into force on 1 January 2016. The Russian side before many times noted that, despite delayed until 1 January 2016 the implementation of the economic part of the Association of Ukraine with the EU, Kiev has taken a number of decisions of the contract in terms of standardization, technical regulations and phytosanitary standards. The Russian Federation in violation of the terms of the implementation of this part of the contract reserves the right to introduce measures to protect its economy, including import duties on items from Ukraine.