KYIV, Dec 27 - The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the export strategy of Ukraine until 2021.

"It is important to make export promotion a constant, consistent and consolidated policy and in 2018 to launch the system of state support in the framework of this strategy," Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine's Trade Representative Natalia Mykolska said, representing the export strategy at a cabinet meeting on December 27.

The export strategy defines 20 markets in focus, as well as the European Union and the UK.

"We need to mobilize resources for markets in focus ... First of all, it is the European Union. Then we talk about diversification. We have historical markets such as Belarus and Georgia [in the export strategy].