KIEV, June 10 - Ukraine and the United States "will be good partners in the future," Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who had been present at the Ukrainian leader's presidential inauguration in Kiev earlier on Saturday.

"I'm sure that we will get a new country, which will be free, democratic and European," Poroshenko said.

He expressed gratitude for American support for Ukraine's efforts to integrate with the European Union and restore peace in the east of the country.