The building of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Coordinates: 50°26′52.0″N 30°32′1.4″E / 50.44778°N 30.533722°E / 50.44778; 30.533722 The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Кабінет Міністрів України) is the highest body of state executive power in Ukraine^[1] and serves as the cabinet of government. There are 20 Ministries and 25 seats in the Cabinet. The Cabinet is responsible to the President of Ukraine and is under the control of and accountable to the Verkhovna Rada (parliament). It consists of the Prime Minister, the First Vice-Prime Minister, several Vice-Prime Ministers, the Minister of the Cabinet and many other Ministers, who head their assigned Ministries (departments).

The Cabinet is steered by the Prime Minister, chosen from the parliament with the President's formal proposal. The twelveth and latest Cabinet was chosen on December 18, 2007 and is headed by Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.^[2]

[edit] Authority

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The Cabinet issues resolutions and orders that are mandatory for execution. Normative legal acts of the Cabinet, ministries, and other central bodies of executive power are subjects to registration. Failure to register invalidates the act.

[edit] Appointment and dismissal

Before the constitutional reform adopted in late 2004 that took effect on January 1, 2006, the Prime Minister was nominated by the President and approved by the parliament. Subsequently, the rest of Cabinet was appointed by the President, formally upon the Prime Minister's nomination, although in practice the entire cabinet was often picked by the President himself.

After the reform, the parliament has the authority to both nominate and approve the Prime Minister. The candidate is proposed by the parliamentary coalition to the President and the latter submits an official nomination back to Verkhovna Rada for a formal approval vote. While the official nomination of the candidate for the parliamentary approval is still made by the President; as the Head of the State, formally, he takes no part in the nominee's selection and there is an ambiguity whether the President may turn down the candidate suggested by the parliamentary coalition.

The Prime Minister, following his appointment, nominates other members of the Cabinet (19 ministers) for approval by the Verkhovna Rada, except for the Minister of the Foreign Affairs and one of Defense, who are both nominated by the President.

Now the Prime Minister and his/her Cabinet could be dismissed only by the parliament, oppose to previously, when the President could dismiss the entire cabinet unilaterally at any time.

Members of the Cabinet and chief officers of central and local bodies of executive power may not combine their official activity with other work, except teaching, scholarly and creative activity outside of working hours, and/or to be members of an administrative body or board of supervisors of an enterprise that is aimed at making profit.

[edit] Current Composition

The current Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has been appointed on December 18, 2007. On 17 December 2008 Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced a reshuffle of the cabinet after the forming of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT), Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc (OU-PSD) and Bloc of Lytvyn coalition (the previous government was a coalition between BYuT and OU-PSD)^[3].

March 18, 2009 the Cabinet of Ministers halved the salaries of the Prime Minister and all other ministers from April 1, 2009, to January 1, 2010 to fight the current economic crises of Ukraine.^[4]

On June 18, 2009 Parliament Speaker and leader of Bloc of Lytvyn Volodymyr Lytvyn stated that his party is not seeking posts in the Cabinet of Ministers even though at the time there where three post vacant and the Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinskyi turned in his resignation one day earlier. According to Lytvyn he had no intention of changing this position because he valued voters.^[5]

On June 26, 2009 Prime Minister Tymoshenko nominated Oleksandr Klymenko for coal minister, Mykhailo Zgurovsky and Yuriy Liubonenko for vice premiers, Fedir Yaroshenko for finance minister, Tariel Vasafze for transport and communications minister, and Viktor Shemchuk for justice minister^[6].

On November 16, 2009 First Vice Prime Minister Oleksander Turchinov stated that the government's vacant ministerial posts could be filled only after the upcoming presidential elections.^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Governmental Portal of Ukraine - official site of the Cabinet of Ministers

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