Yanukovych stands for promoting cooperation with South Korea

The development of full-scale cooperation with the countries of East Asia is an important component of foreign policy of Ukraine, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych said during the meeting with speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Kang Chang-hee.

"In this context I want to mention Ukraine's readiness to accept Korean president Mrs. Park Geun-hye on state visit," Yanukovych said, ForUm correspondent reports.

In addition, the President stressed that economic and trade relations are an important area of cooperation between the two countries. In particular, one of the priorities is enhancing investment cooperation.

"I hope that the parliamentary friendship groups of our countries will further facilitating the expansion of the Ukrainian-Korean cooperation," he said.

In turn, the speaker of the National Assembly of Korea thanked the President for the opportunity to meet with the Korean delegation.

He also noted that Ukraine and Korea have much in common.

"We had a similar historical path: not once we suffered invasions, attacks of neighboring countries, but our country survived that," Kang Chang-hee said.