Yanukovych hopes state budget for 2014 will be adopted on January 16

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said he hopes that the state budget for 2014 will be adopted no later than January 16, 2014.

"Let us hope that it will be adopted on January 16. Let's write so," he said at a meeting of the Council of Regions in Kyiv on Thursday.

Yanukovych also stressed the need to develop a plan for the second stage of long-term reforms and said that he plans to present it in early 2014.