Ukraine will have no farmland market in the near future, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said.

"There will be no land market in the near future, I'm taking about farmland," he said at the press conference on Monday.

The parliamentary speaker said the participants of the conciliation council should came to a common agreement regarding this issue. At the same time, the speaker said parliament must approve a legislative act that would probably be calm people down.

As Lytvyn said, he asked a profile committee to consider law acts regarding this issue that were registered by the deputies of the Communist Party fraction and deputy of the Regions Party faction, permanent representative in parliament, Yuriy Miroshnychenko, "to take a simple and clear decision."

Lytvyn said parliament has time to settle this issue. According to the speaker, land market in Ukraine could be set up only after the adoption of the law. However, he said that there is no the law on land market on the agenda.

In turn, leader of the Regions Party faction Oleksandr Yefremov said that a decision to sell land had never been taken at the party or faction level.

He said that today all land in Ukraine is divided in two categories: land that is used by industrial enterprises and plants, and agricultural land. Yefremov noted that industrial land can be sold, but there is a moratorium on the sale of farmland. Moreover, if parliament decides to ban the sale of land of all categories, that would be unfair to those people who have already bought land, the faction's leader said.

According to Lytvyn, there is a market for the sale of industrial land in the country and nobody can stop these sales. He also said that there are two bills in the parliament on moratoria to sell farmland that are to be considered.

Leader of the People's Party faction Ihor Sharov offered to meet with other faction leaders to arrive at a common solution regarding the land market issue. The speaker supported Sharov's proposal.