KIEV, Jan. 29 – President Viktor Yanukovych will make a state visit to China this year, Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara said at the European Business Association in Kiev on Tuesday.

Kozhara expressed the hope that after China forms its new government, the second meeting of the intergovernmental committee of Ukraine and China will take place.

"We will also prepare a state visit of the president to China this year. I hope that the Chinese leadership will also visit Ukraine this year," he said.