LONDON, Dec. 6 - Ukraine would like to initial its association agreement with the EU at the Ukraine-EU summit in Kiev on December 19, although the question of reflecting EU membership prospects in the document remains open, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said.

"The agreement does not have clear wording on how the Europeans see Ukraine in the EU. I think that we will manage to achieve such wording," he said at the Inside Ukraine conference of the Economist magazine, which was organized with the support of the Foundation for Effective Governance in London on Tuesday.