Ukraine hopes to receive assistance from Qatar for the construction of a children's rehabilitation center in its [Ukraine's] southern region, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said.

"The state investment agency supported a unique method by our scientist [Volodymyr] Koziavkin that has helped to cure thousands of children, in particular those from Qatar," Yanukovych said at a presentation of Ukrainian national projects in Doha on Wednesday.

"In partnership with investors from Qatar, we hope to create a medical rehabilitation center with unique treatment technologies on the Azov Sea coast in southern Ukraine," the president said.