Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara has praised the decision to prolong the European Parliament's observation mission of former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski and ex-European Parliament President Pat Cox until the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius due in late November.

"I think today it is the only unbiased mission from the EU – impartial and non-related to any party," Kozhara said in Kyiv on Thursday.

"Many European political forces and many European representatives supporting [former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia] Tymoshenko are her political allies, the allies of her political party Batkivschyna," he said.

He said that the Cox-Kwasniewski mission is the only unbiased mission that gives reliable information to the EU.

"We really would like the mission to work until the Vilnius summit," the ministers said.

Asked how Ukraine is convincing the EU member states to the sign the Association Agreement, Kozhara said: "We don't have to convince them, we have to do everything we've promised the EU that we'd do."

The minister said that all of Ukraine's obligations, including political and legal ones, were outlined in a statement on the results of the latest EU-Ukraine Summit.