KIEV, July 21 – The talks on the creation of a free-trade zone between Ukraine and the European Union should be based on the rules of the World Trade Organization, officials from the sides in the talks said at a meeting in Brussels on July 17, according to a posting on the official Web site of the Ukrainian state.

The agreements should promote the gradual achievement of four market freedoms – in the commodities and services trade, and in flows of labor and capital, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential secretariat, Andriy Honcharuk, and Peter Mandelson, Commissioner of the European Union for Trade, agreed at their meeting.