European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule views as arbitrary the European Court of Human Rights' (ECHR) ruling on former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's arrest as a confirmation of the EU's concerns regarding Tymoshenko's trial in Ukraine.

In an exclusive interview with an Interfax-Ukraine reporter Fule said the EU will urge the Ukrainian authorities to settle the problem appropriately, taking into account the facts uncovered by the court.

The commissioner said he was sure that the European Parliament's monitoring mission made up of former European Parliament President Pat Cox and former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski could offer a lot of expertise to settle this problem practically and find a solution that would improve the situation regarding selective justice in Ukraine.

It was reported earlier that the ECHR said in publicizing its judgment on Tuesday that Tymoshenko's arrest in the case concerning the 2009 gas supply contract with Russia had been politically motivated and her rights had been violated.

Tymoshenko was arrested during her trial dealing with the conclusion of a 2009 gas supply contract with Russia on August 5, 2011. Kyiv's Pechersky District Court found Tymoshenko guilty of abuse of office in signing this gas supply contract and sentenced her to 7 years in prison on October 11, 2011. Tymoshenko has been serving her sentence at a penitentiary in Kharkiv since December 2011. Since May 9, 2012, she has been staying at a Kharkiv hospital and receiving medial treatment there.

Apart from the complaint against Tymoshenko's arrest, her defense team also filed a complaint with the ECHR against a violation of her right to a fair and public hearing due to political motives (Articles 6 and 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights), meaning her conviction in the 2009 gas supply case. The proceedings on the complaint were opened in October 2012.