KIEV, Dec. 8 – President Viktor Yushchenko has said he is “confident” that a positive decision on Ukraine's accession to the Energy Community Treaty will be taken at a meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Energy Community in Zagreb on December 18.

Yushchenko said at a meeting with the professors and students of Volyn Lesia Ukrainka National University in Lutsk on Tuesday that Ukraine had made significant progress over the last four years on its way to European integration. In particular, he said, the issue concerns a political decision on signing an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.