KIEV, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Wednesday she is unhappy with the current tension between Ukraine and Russia over Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

    "Regarding tension between the Ukrainian authorities and the Black Sea Fleet, I'm strongly against that. I believe representatives for the Ukrainian authorities should behave properly so that Ukraine should not be drawn into military conflicts," she told a news briefing.

    "I want the position of the Ukrainian authorities to be deliberated so as the Ukrainian territory should not be involved in any military tension. This refers to the decrees on the Black Sea Fleet," Tymoshenko said.

    Tymoshenko also noted that Ukraine intends to stick to the international agreements on the stationing of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the Ukrainian territory until 2017.

    Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko last week signed a decree requiring tougher rules on Russian naval movements from the base in Sevastopol, as a reaction to the participation of Black Sea Fleet ships in the recent Russian military operation in Georgia.