KIEV, July 8 - The adoption of all laws on land reform this year will guarantee the introduction of a land market in Ukraine in 2012, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

"The reforms in the agro-industrial sector will take place gradually and very carefully. One of the man drastic steps we need to take this year is to adopt all bills on land reform. The first one, on the land cadastre, has already been adopted. I am hoping the other laws will be adopted at the beginning of the next session," Yanukovych told a press conference in Kiev on Friday.