President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite has congratulated Ukraine and the European Union on the EU-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement's coming into force from January 1, 2016.

"New year - new opportunities. Congratulations on the entry into force of the agreement on a free trade area between the EU and Ukraine," she wrote on her Twitter page.

The document was signed on June 27, 2014 as part of the broader Association Agreement.