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Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 17:30 (EEST) Section: Latest news

The participants to the consultations have managed to agree on almost all positions in the future Cabinet of Ministers to be headed by Volodymyr Groysman, Ukraine`s weekly newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli reports, citing sources.
Presidential envoy in parliament, MP from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko Stepan Kubiv is to become First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economic Development and Trade.
Yuliya Kovaliv and Maksym Nefyodov will be appointed deputy ministers of economy.
Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs – Pavlo Rozenko;
Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration – Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze;
Deputy Prime Minister for ATO affairs and the occupied territories – Volodymyr Kistion;
Deputy Prime Minister for Reforms – Dmytro Shymkiv;
Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs – Vyacheslav Kyrylenko;
Finance Minister – Oleksandr Danylyuk, First Deputy Minister of Finance – Oksana Markarova;
Interior Minister – Arsen Avakov (retains his post);
Justice Minister – Pavlo Petrenko (retains his post);
Defense Minister – Stepan Poltorak (retains his post);
Foreign Minister – Pavlo Klimkin (retains his post);
Youth and Sports Minister – Ihor Zhdanov;
Minister of Information Policy – Yuriy Stets;
Minister of Social Policy – Andriy Reva;
Ecology Minister – Ostap Semerak;
Minister of Education – Liliya Hrynevych;
Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food – Taras Kutoviy;
Infrastructure Minister – Volodymyr Omelyan;
Culture Minister – Yevhen Nyshchuk;
Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing – Gennadiy Zubko;
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers – Oleksandr Saenko.
There are still no candidates for the posts of Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine and Health Minister.
According to sources, Groysman`s condition is that these people be untainted and able to carry out reforms. ”A large number of deputies prime ministers is due to the fact that this is a coalition government and the product of compromise. And a compromise is not always concise,” a source said.