First Yanukovych government
First Yanukovych Government | |
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9th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990) | |
Date formed | 21 November 2002 |
Date dissolved | 5 January 2005 |
People and organisations | |
Head of state | Leonid Kuchma |
Head of government | Viktor Yanukovych |
Deputy head of government | Mykola Azarov |
No. of ministers | 20 |
Member party | Party of Regions Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) Labour Ukraine |
Status in legislature | Majority |
Opposition party | Our-Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc |
Opposition leader | Viktor Yushchenko Yulia Tymoshenko |
History | |
Legislature term(s) | 5 years |
Predecessor | Kinakh government |
Successor | First Tymoshenko government |
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The first Yanukovych Government was the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers between 21 November 2002 and 5 January 2005, led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych had been elected Prime Minister of Ukraine with 234 votes, only 8 more than needed.[1]
On December 1, 2004 (during the Orange Revolution) the Ukrainian Parliament passed a vote of no-confidence.[2] The government supported NATO membership of Ukraine (2002) and sent Ukrainian troops to Iraq in 2003.[3]
Composition[4][]
- Viktor Yanukovych – Prime Minister
- Mykola Azarov – First Deputy Prime Minister
- Vitaly Hayduk – Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy complex
- Ivan Kyrylenko – Deputy Prime Minister
- Dmytro Tabachnyk – Deputy Prime Minister for humanitarian issues
- – Agricultural Policy
- – Interior Affairs
- Vasyl Shevchuk – Environment and Natural Resources
- Valery Khoroshkovsky – Economy and European Integration
- Anatoliy Zlenko – Foreign Affairs
- – Emergency Situations and Chernobyl Cleanup
- – Culture and the Regions
- General Volodymyr Shkidchenko – Defence
- – Education and Science
- – Health
- Oleksandr Lavrynovych – Justice
- – Fuel and Energy
- – Labour and Social Policy
- – Industrial Policy
- Heorhiy Kirpa – Transport
References[]
- ^ How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy by Anders Åslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009, ISBN 978-0-88132-427-3 (page 153)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-27. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.taraskuzio.net/media20_files/Oxford_Analytica_tmp141.pdf[dead link]
- ^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/3f4f25143.pdf[bare URL PDF]
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