KIEV, July 19 - Ukraine will seek to improve its international ease of doing business ranking to 70th up from 80th in 2018, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said.

"We ranked 153rd in the World Bank Doing Business ranking three years ago among about 190 countries, and this year we plan to be 70th," Poroshenko told investment conference during his recent trip to Batumi, Georgia.

Poroshenko noted Georgia ranks 39th in Doing Business.