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By Gareth Jones and Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's newly elected president, Petro Poroshenko, wants to sign a landmark trade deal with the European Union soon after his inauguration as head of state, his office said on Wednesday, after EU officials suggested there might be some delay. The proposed trade agreement with the EU has been at the heart of Ukraine's political crisis over the past six months since former Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovich turned his back on the accord at the last minute. Poroshenko, a billionaire chocolate factory owner who won an unprecedented first round victory in Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday, has pledged to align his former Soviet republic of 45 million people with the EU. "Petro Poroshenko considers it essential not to delay the signing of the economic part of the association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union," his office said in a statement sent to Reuters.
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