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Ukraine will obtain membership of the European Union by 2022, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.

"Ukraine will become an EU member in less than a decade," he said in Kyiv on Thursday, adding that he offered former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski to make a bet.

Azarov said that on Thursday morning he met with Kwasniewski at the seventh annual conference of the Dragon Capital investment company in Kyiv.