KIEV, April 11 – The first meeting of the section of the Ukraine-EU Association Committee which deals with trade will take place in Kiev on Tuesday and Wednesday, the committee will put into operation the institutional mechanism of a free trade area, the Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported on Monday.

"The meeting, which will be held on April 12-13, will address the range of issues on the EU-Ukraine agenda in the trade area: the interaction of the parties in the trade area, the implementation of section IV of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, the development of relations between Ukraine and the EU with their trading partners," the ministry said in a statement posted on its website.