The next opportunity for Ukraine and the European Union to sign the Association Agreement will be the EU-Ukraine summit scheduled for March 2014, adviser to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Andriy Honcharuk has said.

When asked by an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent when the agreement may be signed, he said: "The next opportunity will be the EU-Ukraine summit, which is scheduled for early March 2014."

Honcharuk expressed the hope that by that time a joint working group would have worked through all the controversial issues.