German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed willingness to join Brexit talks, scheduled to begin on 19th of this month.
The German chancellor said she believed Britain would stick to the timetable, adding the European Union was "ready".
British Prime Minister Theresa May lost her parliamentary majority in an election on Thursday and is in talks with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) for support to form a new government.
It is her first comment since Mrs May's Conservative party lost 13 seats.
London's top flight index ended the day up by more than 1% or 77.35 points at 7,527.33 as investors digested news that Theresa May's Conservatives had fallen short of an overall Commons majority, resulting in a hung parliament. May's party will now team up with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to create a new government - something some of her party's MPs say is far from a terrible outcome, but what critics say actually weakens her position and throws into question her future as prime minister.
"We want to negotiate quickly, we want to stick to the time plan, and so at this point I don't think there is anything to suggest these negotiations can not start as was agreed".
She added that she hoped the United Kingdom would remain a good partner after the negotiations.
With the decision to call the election three years early, May had planned to bolster her majority in parliament, thereby giving her a stronger mandate to take to the negotiating table next week with the European Union to discuss the nation's divorce process from the bloc.
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"I think there's a strong possibility that the British government and the EU will make an agreement that will be as close as possible to what is presently there in the context of the Customs Union because I think they will see the implications [of not being in it]".
"Britain is a member of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, so we have a lot of shared challenges to deal with, and that's the spirit we want to carry out these negotiations in".
European Union leaders expressed concern that May's loss of her majority would raise the risk of negotiations failing, resulting in a legal limbo for people and business.
The former Belgian prime minister wrote on Twitter: "Yet another own goal, after Cameron now May, will make already complex negotiations even more complicated".
EU Council President Donald Tusk told Britain in a Tweet: "Do your best to avoid a "no deal" as result of "no negotiations".
'We were waiting for the election in Britain, but in the next few days these talks will begin.
"As far as the Commission is concerned we can open negotiations tomorrow morning at half past nine", Juncker said jokingly on Friday.
Steven Blockmans of the Center for European Policy Studies said that because of the current chaos, "it is questionable whether that period of time will be sufficient in order to strike a good deal".
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