Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that it would unacceptable for the moratorium on land sales to be lifted on January 1, 2016 without the corresponding laws.

"Either a set of laws and the formation of an actual basis for the actual market of land relations [must take place] and only then we launch the market, or there's no other way out. We can't introduce an actually open market on January 1, 2016," he said at a field meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in Poltava on Wednesday.