Pustovoitenko government

The Pustovoitenko Government was created after the Ukrainian parliament had ousted the previous Cabinet of Pavlo Lazarenko (officially Lazarenko left the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine for health reasons).[1]

On July 16, 1997, 226 deputies voted for the appointment of Valeriy Pustovoitenko, chairman of the People's Democratic Party, as Prime Minister of Ukraine.[2][3] His new government was Ukraine's eighth since Ukraine gained its independence in August 1991.

On November 30, 1999 the Cabinet resign due to reelection of President Kuchma in 1999.[4]

Composition

Office Name minister Term Party
Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoitenko 1997-1999 People's Democratic Party
First Vice Prime Minister Anatoliy Holubchenko
Volodymyr Kuratchenko
Anatoliy Kinakh
1997-1998

1998-1999 1999

Independent

Independent Independent

Vice Prime Minister (on issues of Economy) Anatoliy Kinakh 1997-1999 Independent
Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Labor and Social Policy Mykola Biloblotsky 1997-1998
Vice Prime Minister Volodymyr Semynozhenko 1997-1999 Independent
Vice Prime Minister Valeriy Smoliy 1997-1999 Independent
Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex Mykhailo Hladiy 1997-1999 Agrarian Party
Minister of Coal [Mining] Industry Stanislav Yanko
Serhiy Tulub
1997-1998

1998-1999

Independent

Independent

Minister of Rural Business and Provision Yuriy Karasyk
Borys Supikhanov
1997-1998

1998-1999

Minister of Economics Viktor Suslov
Vasyl Rohovyi
1997-1998

1998-1999

Independent

Independent

Minister of Finance Ihor Mityukov 1997-1999 Independent
Minister of Defence Oleksandr Kuzmuk 1997-1999 Armed Forces of Ukraine
Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Kravchenko 1997-1999 Independent (Militsiya)
Minister of Industrial Policy Vasyl Hureyev 1997-1999
Minister of Healthcare Andriy Serdyuk
Raisa Bogatyreva
1997-1999

1999

Independent

Independent

Minister of Culture and Arts Dmytro Ostapenko
Yuriy Bohutsky
1997-1999

1999

Minister of Education Mykhailo Zghurovskyi
Valentyn Zaychuk
1997-1999

1999

Independent

Independent

Minister of Power Generation Oleksiy Sheberstov
Ivan Plachkov
1997-1999

1999

Minister of Cabinet of Ministers Anatoliy Tolstoukhov 1997-1999
Minister of Foreign Affairs Hennadiy Udovenko
Borys Tarasyuk
1997-1998

1998-1999

People's Movement of Ukraine

People's Movement of Ukraine

Minister of Emergencies and Population Protection

from consequences of Chornobyl Catastrophe

Valeriy Kalchenko
Vasyl Durdynets
1997-1999

1999

Independent

Independent (Internal Troops of Ukraine)

Minister on issues of Sciences and Technologies Volodymyr Semynozhenko
Stanislav Dovhyi
1997-1998

1998-1999

Independent

Independent

Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Serhiy Osyka
Andrii Goncharuk
1997-1999

1999

Minister of Natural Environment and Nuclear Safety Yuriy Kostenko
Vasyl Shevchuk
1997-1998

1998-1999

People's Movement of Ukraine

Independent

Minister of Transportation Valeriy Cherep
Ivan Dankevych
Leonid Kostyuchenko
1997-1998

1998-1999 1999

Minister of Justice Suzanna Stanik 1997-1999 Independent
Minister on issues of Family and Youth Valentyna Dovzhenko 1997-1999
Minister of Information Zinoviy Kulyk 1997-1999
Minister of Labor and Social Policy Ivan Sakhan 1998-1999

References

  1. ^ "Прем'єр-міністри незалежної України йдуть тільки з боєм".
  2. ^ "1997. Політ Каденюка і «проліт» Лазаренка".
  3. ^ "16 липня в історії".
  4. ^ "Прем'єр-міністри України з 1990 по 2016 рік: історія посади" [Prime Ministers of Ukraine from 1990 to 2016: history of the position] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2023-02-02.