KIEV, June 1 - President Viktor Yanukovych has assured European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso that the signing of a memorandum on deepening cooperation between Ukraine and the Eurasian Economic Commission and the further format of interaction with the Eurasian Economic Union does not contradict the country's European integration course.

Yanukovych told this to Barroso during a phone conversation on May 31, the press service of the Ukrainian president reported on Saturday.