The Verkhovna Rada elected the new Cabinet of Ministers. The decision was supported by 227 coalition members including Ivan Plyushch who abstained from voting for Mrs. Tymoshenko’s candidature.
The decision was confirmed by the Accounts Commission and signed by Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Therefore, the Cabinet’s composition is the following:
First Vice Prime Minister – Oleksandr Turchynov (the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, BYuT)
Vice Prime Minister – Ivan Vasyunyk (the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense Bloc, NU-NS)
Vice Prime Minister – Hryhoriy Nemyrya (BYuT)
Minister of Education and Science – Ivan Vakarchuk (NU-NS)
Minister of Transport and Communications – Yosyp Vinsky (ByuT)
Minister of Culture and Tourism – Vasyl Vovkun (NU-NS)
Minister of the Economy – Bohdan Danylyshyn (BYuT)
Minister of Labor and Social Policy – Lyudmyla Denysova (BYuT)
Minister of Defense – Yuriy Yekhanurov (the President’s quota)
Health Minister – Vasyl Knyazevych (NU-NS)
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers – Petro Krupko (BYuT)
Minister of the Regional Development and Construction – Vasyl Kuybida (NU-NS)
Minister of Housing and Communal Services – Oleksiy Kucherenko (NU-NS)
Minister of Internal Affairs – Yuriy Lutsenko (NU-NS)
Minister of Agrarian Policy – Yuriy Melnyk (NU-NS)
Minister of Industrial Policy – Volodymyr Novytsky
Minister of Justice – Mykola Onishchuk (NU-NS)
Minister for Foreign Affairs – Volodymyr Ohryzko (the President’s quota)
Minister for Family, Youth and Sport – Yuriy Pavlenko (NU-NS)
Minister of Finance – Viktor Pynzenyk (BYuT)
Minister of Coal Industry – Viktor Poltavets
Minister of Fuel and Energy – Yuriy Prodan (NU-NS)
Minister of Environmental Protection – Heorhiy Filipchuk
Minister of Emergencies and Protection of the Population from the Chernobyl Accident Consequences – Volodymyr Shandra.
Source: Ukrayinska Pravda
